Why any police man who extorts is an armed robber – Force PRO

By Ezurike Ugochukwu

Following the recent outcry of a Nigeria who narrated on social media his ordeal and that of others in their residential estate who were illegally arrested, detained and extorted by policeman on frivolous charges.

However the Nigerian Police spokesperson, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, while sharing a post on his official X in reaction to the said extortion on Sunday declared that any policeman or security operative who forcefully extorts innocent Nigerians is an armed robber.

The said user had tagging the Force PRO, and wrote, “As PRO of Nigeria Police Force, do something to this dirty stuff your mates always do every day. Police are your friend indeed.”

The police image maker in his response, wrote: “Any armed policeman or security operative who forcefully extorts an innocent Nigerian is as good as an armed robber.

“Extortion is never part of any agency’s mandate, either armed or not. We condemn such, and even the IGP has made it clear,” he started.

The said man while sharing the debit alert of the money collected from him, he however wrote: “So the policemen came to my estate yesterday evening around 7 PM and packed all the men in the estate. We all slept in the cell last night for no reason. When we were called for ‘Questioning’ which was more or less a dictation, they said, ‘You Dey do Yahoo.’ I denied it because I don’t even know how Yahoo works.

“Next thing was to write a statement saying I’m either a cultist or an armed robber. We all refused writing statements without lawyers present, so we were forced to sleep in the cell. This morning, over 500k was extorted from us in general.”