Ezekiel, the 19-year-old student of Federal Polytechnic Bida in Minna, Niger State, who was extorted N140,000 by police officers on July 14, has lost N7,000 more to an officer from the Kpakungu Police Station.
This happened during the student’s attempt to get justice.
Ezekiel, who prefers to be identified by his first name, was in the Kpakungu Police Station on Friday, after Ofonime Udoh, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), requested that he identify the officers who extorted him. Instead of helping him, however, an officer at the station collected N7,000 for paper and fuel from him.
Men who identified themselves as Operation Flush officers from Kpakungu Police Station earlier whisked Ezekiel away and extorted N140,000 from him. It was on July 14.
Ezekiel told FIJ that after the officers saw he had a substantial amount in his OPay wallet, they asked him to bail himself at their police station with N700,000 and then seized his phone.
Capitalising on his desperation to get out of the police web, Muhammed Yahaya, one of the police officers who whisked Ezekiel away from his house, asked to be paid N10,000 so he would negotiate his bail with other police officers.
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Afterwards, the agreeing police officers took Ezekiel to a point-of-sale merchant, where he transferred all the N130,000 in his account.
“On Friday morning, they took me to the point-of-sale merchant I transferred to and got her statement. When someone mentioned the name of the officer to whom I first transferred money before visiting the merchant, a policewoman said that she knew Yahaya and that he was from another branch,” Ezekiel told FIJ.
When FIJ called Udoh, the DPO, for comments, he said that the matter was still being investigated and that his team was looking for the set of police officers who masterminded the extortion.
“The POS merchant gave us a name; we’re looking for the person. They said they came with a Hilux vehicle with the inscription ‘Operation Flush’, but there are many ‘Flush’ vehicles and they could come from anywhere. We are trying to track his number. We are looking for someone who will help us track the number if they can get him,” said Udoh.
When FIJ called Yahaya, he said he was not around but would show up at Kpakungu Police Station this weekend. He refused to comment on the allegation of extortion.
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