Police Summon Officers For Allegedly Extorting N1m From Corps Members In Lagos

The Lagos Police Command has summoned three officers for allegedly extorting N1m from corps members.

 Videos of the encounter between the corps members and police officers had gone viral on social media.

The incident reportedly happened in the Surulere area of Lagos.

A social media user Oluyemi Fasipe, who shared the videos, alleged the officers extorted N1m from the corps members.

“Dear @BenHundeyin, Your officers today in Surulere extorted 1 million naira from three corps members,” he wrote on Friday. “They were threatened with firearms, kidnapped, and taken to the KAFARU OLUWOLE TINUBU HOUSE AREA C POLICE COMMAND of the @LagosPoliceNG where they were robbed.

“Their offence was the absence of a physical copy of a driver’s license. This is evil!”

In one of the videos, the police officers were seen searching the car occupants’ documents.

However the situation degenerated into an altercation, attracting more officers coming to the scene.

An officer then entered the car while asking them to stop filming the incident. He also barred them from calling their loved ones.

Responding on Friday to public outrage over the conduct of the police officers, the spokesman of the Lagos State Police Command, Benjamin Hundeyin said the men involved in the incident have been summoned and that their trial has commenced.

“The men have been summoned and their trial has commenced,” he wrote on X while responding to Fasipe’s post.

“We urge the complainants to visit the Complaint Response Unit at the State Headquarters to testify at the ongoing trial.”