Police Summon Officers For Allegedly Extorting N1m From Lagos Corps Members

Police authorities in Lagos have summoned three officers for allegedly extorting N1m from corps members.

Footage of the encounter between the corps members and officers had made the rounds on social media late Friday. The incident is said to have happened in the Surulere area of Lagos.

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

In one of the videos, police officers were seen searching the car occupants’ documents. The situation later became heated, leading to more officers coming to the scene. An officer was later spotted entering the car while asking them to stop filming the incident. He also barred them from calling their loved ones.

One of the officers informed the corps members that it was an offence of “impersonation” to wear only the NYSC cap without the full uniform.

A screen grab of the incident.

Fásípè’s tweet read: “Dear #BenHundeyin, your officers today in Surulere extorted one million naira from three corps members. 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 not having a physical copy of a driver’s licence. This is evil!

“According to the victims, the officer in mufti is the one who collected the money (their boss).

“Ben, #BenHundeyin, here are the transaction receipts and a voice note of one of the victims explaining how the rogue officers extorted money from the three corps members.”

But the spokesman of the Lagos State Police Command Benjamin Hundeyin said the men involved in the incident have been summoned.

“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.”