The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has summoned
some police officers serving at the Force Criminal Investigations Department,
Alagbon, Lagos, to report to the Special Investigation Panel, Force
Headquarters, Abuja, on Tuesday, for allegedly extorting two youths of N22m
worth of bitcoin at gunpoint.
This is as the police boss ordered a probe of the
allegations of professional misconduct, abuse of office and extortion made
against a Deputy Superintendent of Police, Nwawe Cordelia, and others at the
FCID, Alagbon.
Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, in a statement on
Monday, said the IGP set up the SIP headed by DCP Olaolu Adegbite of the Force
Intelligence Bureau to carry out a discreet and transparent investigation into
the allegations against the officers.
“This development has become imperative following the report
making the rounds in the media alleging the involvement of the officers in the
extortion of Twenty-Two Million Naira worth of Bitcoin from two young
Nigerians, Morakinyo Tobiloba Peter and Yusuf Samson Dayo at gunpoint on July
14, 2021 while driving along the Ikoyi/Ajah Expressway, Lagos State,” the
statement partly read.
The statement was titled, ‘IGP orders investigations into
alleged extortion of 22 million naira worth of bitcoin’.
“The Force advises
any member of the public who has had similar experiences of high-handedness or
extortion by the officers in question, her team or any other officer at the
FCID Alagbon to come forward with detailed information to enable the panel
achieve a wholistic investigation,” the statement added.
Mba also assured Nigerians that “any officer found wanting
will be visited with the full wrath of the law”.
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