Ezekiel, a 19-year-old student of the Federal Polytechnic Bidda, has recounted how police officers from the Kpakungu Police Station in Minna, Niger State, extorted N140,000 from him after arresting him for no reason on July 14.
The student, who wants to be known only by his first name, told FIJ that he was in his house expecting a delivery man to bring his orders when someone called him by his name to open his doors.
He said that he was shocked to see more than one person when he opened his door, so he asked them who they were, and the men identified themselves as Operation Flush officers from the Kpakungu Police Station.
Without his permission, the policemen entered his house and searched his room but found nothing incriminating, so they asked him to follow them to the police station. Ezekiel said he asked them why they would arrest him but they refrained, “You are under arrest.”
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Ezekiel said that when he got to the police station, the police officers seized his phone and would not allow him to call anyone, although he insisted. The officers asked him to open his phone for them to go through its contents, which he did.
The receipt of the N10,000 Ezekiel first paid before paying another N140,000
“They found nothing on my phone, so they asked me to open my bank accounts. They found no money in my accounts except my OPay. Upon seeing that I had some N140,000 in my Opay wallet, the policemen asked me to pay N700,000 to bail myself,” Ezekiel told FIJ.
He said he asked in confusion why he would pay such an amount, especially when he had committed no crime, but rather than give him answers, one of the officers whispered to him that he could negotiate his bail with other officers if he would pay him N10,000.
Ezekiel transferred N10,000 to the officer’s account, and not long after that, the officer went to where his colleagues were to speak with them. When he went back to Ezekiel, he told him the officers had agreed to be paid N130,000. This is according to Ezekiel.
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“The police officer who received N10,000 from me took me to a point-of-sale merchant, where I withdrew all the money from my account. He collected the slip the merchant gave me and tore it to shreds before taking me back to the police station,” he said.
“They gave me my phone when I got back to the police station before letting me go. The time was around 5 pm, and I was arrested at 11 am. The N140,000 was meant for the balance of my house rent. I have not spent up to three weeks in the area. So, I am shocked someone knows me by name.”
When FIJ called Wasiu Abiodun, the Niger State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), for comments, he asked this reporter to tell the source to call him for the police to fish the officers out.
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