Lagos police question six officers for a N100,000 extortion.

 Six police officers have been called to the Lagos State Police Command's headquarters in Ikeja in connection with an alleged attempt to extort N100,000 from a member of the public. This was confirmed by Benjamin Hundeyin, the command's spokesman, to the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday. Six police officers are working on the case. They have been invited to the Ikeja headquarters for questioning. The owner has received the money involved back, he said. On his verified Twitter account on Thursday, a member of the public going by the name Oluwagbadura claimed that some police officers had demanded money from him. According to him, some police officers stopped him at Soliki, Aguda, Lagos at 2:45 p.m. and searched him as normal.

Oluwagbadura claimed that the officers led him to a POS at at 3:44 p.m. and took N100,000 of his "hard-earned money." "After searching me and not finding anything, they took my phone and business laptop and labeled me a yahoo boy," he claimed. "My offence," they claimed, "is that I do not have a freelancer ID card. They went through my phone. For communicating with my buddies on WhatsApp, they referred to me as a criminal. "They made threats to shoot me and imprison me! They then drove me a short distance to their station, where they forced me to confess to being a criminal. Oluwagbadura added that the police requested him to write a statement and that he afterwards signed the necessary paperwork to post bail after continuing to deny having committed any crimes.

I paid N2,000 for charges (which was a screenshot) after transferring N100,000 to the POS vendor. There were six cops, he claimed, and one of them threatened to deal with him in a cell without doing anything. He claimed that some of them, including the one who served as their leader, were muftis. "At the Soliki Aguda Police Divisional Headquarters, all of these events took place. Please help me get justice and get my money back," he tweeted. Around 7.46 p.m., the complaint was tweeted, and at 10.36 p.m., Oluwagbadura tweeted once more to express his gratitude to everyone who had assisted in spreading his complaints, First of all, many thanks to everyone who sent in a tweet. My money was fully refunded. Special acknowledgements go to @SavvyRinu, @BenHundeyin (the police spokesman in Lagos), @segalink, and the DPO, who was quite courteous, he added.

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