The Ogun State Police Command has dismissed three of its officers for extorting N312,000 from a pupil of Tai Solarin College of Schooling (TASUED) Ijagun, Kashimao Emmanuel.
The three dismissed officers hooked up to Ijebu Ife in Ijebu East Native Authorities Space of Ogun State are Cpl Idowu Sunday, Inspectors Taiwo Kolawole and John Ogbe.
Commissioner of Police within the state, Abiodun Alamutu, mentioned the officers had been dismissed after an orderly course of within the chamber.
The police boss defined that the sufferer was driving a brown-coloured Toyota Venza automobile when he was stopped by 4 armed males, certainly one of whom was sporting police camouflage, together with others in mufti, about three weeks in the past.
“They demanded for his telephone however he calmly refused. One among them fired a shot into the air and that was when he complied.
“They acquired into his automobile and took him away in direction of Sagamu freeway. After they arrived at Ososa, they made a U-turn to Ijebu-ode the place an quantity of 300 and twelve thousand naira was forcibly transferred from his account to an Opay account. No. 9097729766.”
The commissioner mentioned that after receiving the sufferer's grievance, a name was transferred to a PoS operator utilizing the quantity, with directions to not pay the cash to anybody till he comes.
The operator was additionally instructed to make use of delay techniques, in case somebody comes for the cash, till police arrive.
“Upon receiving the report, the DPO shortly referred to as the Opay account quantity the place it was found that the Opay account quantity belongs to a cashier in Ijebu-ode.”
Alamutu mentioned when he arrived on the POS store at Ibadan storage, Sunday hooked up to Ijebu-Ife was met whereas ready to money the cash and was instantly arrested.
He mentioned whereas the suspect was being taken to the station, he recognized his accomplices Kolawole, Ogbe and a civilian, Adesiyan Mathew, who occurred to be the motive force and who was additionally arrested.
Alamutu added that two different complainants who had been victims at totally different occasions through the investigation got here ahead and recognized that they’d beforehand robbed them of their belongings in the identical method.
The three dismissed officers will quickly seem in courtroom.
