Policemen attached to the Ogudu Police Division in Lagos State have admitted to robbing Ayodele Ilemibayo, a student of the Ekiti State University, at gunpoint and stealing N150,000 from him on January 4.
Ilemibayo and his friends were heading to Ikorodu from Alakuko that Saturday morning when policemen at Ojota stopped the vehicle they boarded. After submitting to a search and getting a pass, the vehicle ran into another checkpoint some metres ahead in Ogudu.
Here, the police searched their phones and concluded they were cryptocurrency fraudsters.
“They asked my Uber driver to go. I said I hadn’t paid him,” Ilemibayo shared on his X page.
“They took my friend and me to their vehicle (a fully tinted Sienna), and I got assaulted there. They said we had to go to the station, and that their boss at the office would investigate us.
“I got scared because of the police brutality I had been hearing and seeing on X, I never believed one day this would happen to me. They asked me to pay N200,000 if I wanted to go home without being taken to the station.”
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He said he ended up parting with N150,000 when the policemen forced him to transfer money to a local PoS vendor.

After the incident, Ilemibayo contacted FIJ.
FIJ contacted the Police Complaints Response Unit (CRU). They got Ilemibayo to visit the Ojodu police station on January 7 where he met Akande Ajoke, the DPO of the station, and one ASP Ibrahim Yusuf.
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“The DPO identified the three policemen who extorted money out of me, and said they would refund me in full the next day,” Ilemibayo told FIJ.
On January 8, Yusuf transferred N100,000 to Ilemibayo and then called to say he would get the remaining N50,000 from the errant policemen and send it to him on Saturday.

On Tuesday, Ilemibayo told FIJ he did not hear from the police again, and they had not sent the rest of his money.
FIJ called Yusuf but he did not answer the phone calls at press time. FIJ also called Ajoke on Tuesday. She promised to follow up on the matter and see to it that they make a full refund.
However, she did not comment on the station’s plan to sanction the officers who extorted Ilemibayo.
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