The Lagos State Police Command has dismissed a sergeant, identified as Ekpo Shinuyere for extorting a man of N98,000.
The command’s spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, in a statement on May 31, said Shinuyere collected his victim’s phone and allegedly transferred the sum of N98,000.
Hundeyin said the police officer used a point of sale (POS) machine to move the money out of N100,000 in the victim’s bank account.
According to him, “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 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.”
The PPRO said the Sergeant was consequently subjected to an orderly room trial in line with extant laws.
“The Commissioner of Police, Lagos Command, Mr Idowu Owohunwa, has reviewed the orderly room procedure of the officer with Force No. 461654, attached to the Sogunle Police Division and has approved the punishment of dismissal from the force,” he said.