Sergeant Ekpo Shimuyere, who was stationed at the Sogunle Division, has been dismissed by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly extorting a young man of N98,000.
SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the spokesperson for the command, stated on Wednesday that the Provost Department of the command had already stripped the dismissed sergeant of his uniform.
According to Hundeyin, the sergeant confiscated the young man’s phone and used a point-of-sale (POS) operator to transfer N98,000 from the victim’s bank account, which had a total of N100,000.
Hundeyin emphasized that the actions of the police officer were in direct violation of the professional ethics expected of members of the force.
In his words;
“Police got the complaint from the victim, and the officer denied the crime when he was contacted. The command placed him under detention so that he would not tamper with the evidence.”
“We wrote to his bank and obtained his statement of account. We were able to trace the money to where the POS operator transferred it before transferring it to the officer’s account.”
“We followed due process to get his account. The victim was invited in the course of the investigation, and he testified.”
“The POS operator was also invited, and he said the officer requested him to transfer the money from the victim’s account to another one.”
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