Olusegun Ariyo
Adekimi Ojo, Police Commissioner for Kwara state, has ordered the arrest of police officers accused of extorting a student of the Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Taiwo Kayode Taye, Urban Express News reports.
The officers of the Anti-Cultism Unit in the state police command allegedly arrested, detained and extorted N200,000 from Taiwo after refusing to unlock his phone.
Taiwo was reportedly stopped at Erin-Ile town while heading to Osogbo in Osun State.
He was taken to the Ijagbo police division and was later moved to the state Criminal Investigation Department, CID, in Ilorin, where police officers allegedly forced him to unlock his phone and transfer the N200,000 to an account named Lucy Akor.
Reacting to the development in a telephone chat with Urban Express News Online in Ilorin on Tuesday, the police commissioner confirmed the incident and expressed displeasure over the conduct of the accused officers.
Angered by the incident, Adekunle Ojo said he had ordered the arrest of the officers involved and that necessary action would be taken against them.
