The Oyo State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of five policemen over the extortion of a student, identified simply as Ibrahim, along the RCC, Old Ogbomoso Road, Oyo State.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso, who confirmed the development to our correspondent on Wednesday, said investigation was ongoing.
“The money extorted from him has been recovered; we traced the operator and the endpoint of the account where the money was lodged. All that happened today.”gathered that the student was on his way to Lagos when the accused policemen accosted him. After disembarking, Ibrahim, in a post shared by an activist, Rinu Oduala, on Twitter, said the policemen took him to a bush where they extorted N90,000 from him.In the post, the student said the money was his school fees, adding that he paid the policemen the money through a Point-of-Sale operator.
“Please ma, help me, this is my school fees as a sum of 90k out of 93k found in my account. I pray you see this so I can explain how it happened. Was driven to the bush and threatened. Please save me. I pray you see this.
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