Musa Adamu Aliyu, Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC)
The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has detained four police officers accused of 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, disclosed this on Monday while briefing journalists in Abuja, describing the officers as “criminals” who had no business wearing the police uniform.
According to the police commissioner, the officers abandoned their designated duty posts, converged around the Banex area of Wuse, where they mounted an unauthorised checkpoint and engaged in extortion without realising that their victim was the ICPC chairman.
Sanusi said the officers compelled Aliyu to withdraw N53,000 through a Point of Sale operator, pay the transaction charges, and subsequently shared the money among themselves.
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