Three policemen, who allegedly extorted the sum of N153,000 from a student of the Lagos State University, Hezekiah Oluwaponmile, on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway have been arrested.
The cops, attached to the Owode-Egba Police Station, Siun, Ogun State, allegedly stopped the victim who was travelling from Ibadan to Abeokuta on Saturday, April 24, 2021.
Oluwaponmile said the policemen, who claimed to be on stop and search duty, stopped his vehicle, forced him to disembark.
The victim said they asked what he did for a living and he told them he was a student of LASU.
“They told me to unlock my phone, but I refused; they threatened to kill me if I did not cooperate with them. They brought out a shocker, so I obliged.
“They asked me how many bank accounts I had and how much was in each of them. I told them I had two accounts with GTB and Union Bank. So, I opened my phone due to the threat from them and upon going through it, I was asked to pay the sum of N1m, but I told them I did not have up to that amount.
“Later on, they asked me to open my bank app, where they saw a balance of N288,000 and told me that they would collect N250,000 out of it without telling me what I did wrong.
“I begged them that I needed the money for some things, but they insisted on collecting N150,000.
“Then they asked me to give them my Automated Teller Machine card; I denied having one, so they took me to a Paga (Point of Sale) shop, which they have a connection with.
“The Paga man collected a fee of N3,000 after negotiating from N5,000. On a final note, I did a transfer of N153,000.”
The Ogun State Command spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, however disclosed that the policemen have been traced and arrested.
He said they were already being tried.
