The Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Abaniwonda Olufemi, has ordered the removing of a Divisional Crime Officer of Abraka Division, SP Ibrahim Ishaku, over a N2,465,000 extortion case.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Edafe Vivid, disclosed this in a press release on Wednesday.
The assertion learn partially: “Following the reported case of extortion of the sum of two million, 4 hundred and sixty-five thousand naira (#2,465,000) by the DCO 2 Abraka Division.
“The Commissioner of Police, Delta State CP Abaniwonda Olufemi, after receiving this disturbing report, directed the DPO Abraka to report back to the headquarters alongside the DCO 2 SP Ibrahim Ishaku.
“After being knowledgeable of the disturbing incident, the CP instantly ordered the removing of the DCO 2 SP Ibrahim Ishaku with speedy impact and the officer questioned for misconduct.”
Within the assertion, the CP reiterated that the command beneath his watch will take decisive motion in opposition to any recalcitrant officer who commits any type of misconduct, extortion or discourtesy in the direction of members of the general public, hoping that it’s going to function a deterrent to others.
PUNCH On-line reviews an analogous incidence because the Rivers State Police Command on Wednesday introduced the dismissal of 1 Inspector Michael Odey over his involvement in a $3,000 extortion case.
Odey, together with two Assistant Superintendents of Police, Doubara Edonyabo and Expertise Mungo, had been accused of kidnapping and extorting two males.
The three operatives reportedly took their unsuspecting victims to a few states earlier than expropriating from them the stated quantity, equal to N4.2 million.
