Spokesperson of the Nigeria Police Force, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, says police personnel who trot guns at Nigerians to extort them are not different from armed robbers.
A crypto trader and influencer on X had dragged the police after his house was allegedly broken into and he was arrested forcefully.
The man claimed the police broke into his estate wearing normal clothes without any search warrant, taking all the men who lived there to the station, questioning them, and claiming they were internet fraudsters.
He provided debit alerts where they took some money from him while stating that they collected a total of five hundred thousand from all the men who live in his estate.
“So 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.
“The next thing was to write a statement saying I’m either a Cultist or An Armed robber. We all refused to write statements without lawyers present, so we were forced to sleep in the cell. This morning, over 500k, was extorted from us in general,” the post read partly.
