A police sergeant, Ekpo Shimuyere, has been dismissed by police authorities in Lagos State for extorting a young man of N98,000.
The spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, Benjamin Hundeyin, in a statement on Wednesday, disclosed that the police man attached to Sogunle Divisional Headquarters had already been disrobed by the Provost Department of the command.
Hundeyin further disclosed that the dismissed sergeant collected the phone of his victim and used a PoS operator to transfer N98,000 out of the N100,000 in the victim’s bank account.
Describing the action of the. dismissed officer as contrary to the ethics of the police profession, He said: “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 would 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 it 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.”
