The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) police command has arrested four police officers for allegedly extorting N53,000 from Musa Aliyu, chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), during an illegal stop-and-search operation in Abuja.
Ahmed Sanusi, FCT commissioner of police, shared this while briefing journalists in Abuja on Monday.
He said the officers abandoned their assigned duty posts, mounted an unauthorised checkpoint around the Banex area in Wuse, and extorted the ICPC chairman.
He said Aliyu was compelled to withdraw N53,000 through a Point of Sale (PoS) operator, paid the transaction charges, with the officers later sharing the money among themselves.
“I must say here too that we have about four policemen in custody as we speak who successfully extorted somebody of high importance, unknown to them that this person is a highly placed person in society,” Sanusi said.
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