Four police officers are on trial after allegedly extorting N1 million from three National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members in Surulere, Lagos State.
The spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed this on his X handle on Friday.
An X user, Oluyemi Fasipe, with the handle @YemieFash, posted a video showing how the officers stopped the corps members in their car, threatened them, took them away, and reportedly extorted N1 million from them.
“Dear @BenHundeyin, Your officers today in Surulere extorted 1 million naira from 3 corps members,” he wrote.
“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 offense was the absence of a physical copy of a driver’s license. This is evil!”
Reacting to the incident, Hundeyin disclosed that…
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