Four policemen attached to
Ijanikin division in the Lagos state police command have been arrested for
allegedly robbing one Theodore Ifunnaya of 350,000 CFA (about N221,508).
Chike Oti, police spokesman in
Lagos, said the victim was a Nigerian based in Togo.
Oti said the policemen faced
dismissal if found guilty, but added that the victim was not stripped naked
during interrogation as being alleged in some quarters.
He said the affected policemen
had been transferred to the provost section of the command for investigation.
The officers allegedly accosted
the victim coming from Togo to celebrate Christmas in Nigeria at Iyana-Ira,
Badagry area on December 17.
The suspects subjected the victim
to tortuous search and interrogation, where they discovered the money with him.
They were alleged to have bundled
him into their patrol vehicle to Ijanikin police station where they seized his
money and invited a bureau de change operator to exchange the CFA currency into
naira equivalent.
Having satisfied they had subdued
their victim with a threat, they allegedly released him and gave him N2000 out
of his money, to enable him to locate his Lagos residence.
After regaining freedom from his
alleged police captors, the victim told his family all he went through, which
led to a complaint to Hope Okafor, Area ‘K’ commander.
The commander, an assistant
police commissioner, was said to have intervened by recovering the stolen money
and arrested the erring policemen for interrogation.
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