The Lagos police authorities have summoned three officers for allegedly extorting ₦1 million from some corps members.
A video of the incident between the officers and the corps members surfaced on social media late Friday, with reports suggesting the event took place in the Surulere area of Lagos.
Social media user Oluyemi Fasipe, who shared the footage, claimed that the officers had extorted ₦1 million 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, police officers were seen examining the documents of the car’s occupants. The situation escalated, prompting additional officers to arrive at the scene. At one point, an officer was seen entering the car, instructing the occupants to stop recording the incident and preventing them from contacting their loved ones.
Police Begin Trial
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.”