Matilda Omonaiye/
A police inspector, identified as Taloju Martins, attached to the Ago Police Station, Okota, Lagos, has been accused of spateheading the extortion of residents who were arrested for allegedly violating the COVID-19 lockdown in the state, yesterday.
One of the victims shared a video which he secretly recorded while allegedly being extorted of N40,000 by the police officer.
The unidentified victim, whose ordeal was shared on Twitter by rapper turned human rights activist, Michael Ugochukwu Stephens, popularly known as Ruggedman, said he was accosted by police officers on his way to buy foodstuff at a neighbourhood shopping mall.
He the officers later drove him and some other people they had arrested to their station, where they were all extorted of various sums before being set free.
Narrating his experience, the victim stated, “Good afternoon sir, yesterday I left my house to buy some stuffs at the mall, and buy fuel as well, I was stopped on the way by some policemen, they asked where I was going to and I told them, they said I should come down. I came down, one of the police men drove my car to ago Police station, Okota.
“I live at ago too. When we got there I met so many others, we were told to meet the s/o he delayed us from 9am to 5pm and when people became tired and frustrated, people started going in to meet him one by one, and the least he collect from each of them was 50k.
“When it got to my turn I tried to explain, no way. I told him I can afford 20k he sent me out, I came back offered 30k he refused. He said he can pity me and collect 40k that the dpo knows about all the cars and will take her share….so I went to the bank and withdrew 40k and gave him, then he released my key for me… Unknown to him I recorded him.”
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