Ogun Police Arrest Three Officers for Extorting LASU Student of N153,000

* Police launch manhunt for killers of 11 Tiv farmers in Nasarawa

The Ogun State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of three policemen, who allegedly extorted the sum of N153,000 from a student of the Lagos State University, Hezekiah Oluwaponmile.

This is coming as the Nasarawa State Police Command has launched a manhunt for the killers of 11 Tiv farmers who were killed on Saturday in Ajimaka community in Doma Local Government Area of the state.

The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident, saying: “We heard about the issue and those policemen have been arrested. We have identified them and they have been arrested. They are currently undergoing trial now.”

The three policemen attached to the Owode-Egba Police Station, Siun, Ogun State, had on Saturday, April 24, allegedly accosted the victim while he was on his way to Abeokuta from Ibadan and demanded N1million from him.

According to Oluwaponmile, when the policemen stopped his vehicle, “I told them that I 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.”

In another development, the Nasarawa State Police Command has launched a manhunt for the killers of 11 Tiv farmers who were killed on Saturday in Ajimaka community in Doma Local Government Area of the state.

In a statement issued yesterday, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Ramhan Nansel, explained that the Command had commenced an intensive investigation to track down the killers following the directive by the state Commissioner of Police, Bola Longe, to ensure that the criminal elements were apprehended.

“The Commissioner of Police has directed his Deputy-in-charge of State Criminal and investigation Department to move to the area and conduct a comprehensive investigation in order to unravel the misery behind the attack and arrest the perpetrators of the act,” Nansel explained.