Police Officer Dismissed After Extorting N98,000 From Victim

Sgt. Ekpo Shimuyere, a member of the Sogunle Division and an employee of the Lagos State Police Command, was fired for extorting N98,000 from a young man.

SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the command’s pr officer, revealed this to reporters and stated that the sergeant had been recently stripped by the command’s provost department.

He claimed that the sergeant took the victim’s phone and utilized a POS operator to transfer N98,000 out of the N100,000 that was in the young man’s bank account. According to Hundeyin, the policeman’s behaviour was against the standards of his line of work.

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“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 will 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 to before transferring the money 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,” Hundeyin said.

He continued by saying that the sergeant was subsequently tried in an orderly room in accordance with the law.

SP Benjamin Hundeyin said, “The Commissioner of Police, Lagos Command, Mr. Idowu Owohunwa, have reviewed the orderly room procedure of the officer with Force No. 461654, attached to Sogunle Police Division and have approved the punishment of dismissal from the Force.”

According to Hundeyin, the commissioner advised the officers and men against engaging in any sort of corruption and emphasized that their dismissal was meant to serve as a warning to others.