The Osun state police command has arrested two suspects for extorting a student, Yusuf Joseph, the sum of N150,000.
Nigeriacrime.com learned that the suspects, Sodeeq Adegoke, aged 24 and Abubakar Ajibola, aged 24, were paraded at the Osun police command headquarters in Osogbo on Monday.
One of the suspects, Adegoke confessed to waylaying the victim on the road to lead him to a deserted area inside the Government Reservation Area in the state capital around 11 am last Friday.
His words; “We stopped his motorcycle and jumped on it, forced him to a deserted area in the GRA where we forced him to transfer N150,000 into Ajibola’s account number. We already spent N85,000 from the money.
“We forced him to unlock his phone where we discovered he has money in it and coerced him to transfer the stated sum of money”.
However, the other suspects said he was not part of the attack but the N150,000 was actually transferred into his account.
The victim, who claimed the money is his school fee, said he was attacked by the duo, taken to a deserted area and threatened to break his head if he did not transfer the money to them.
In a related development, four suspected killers of the 25-year-old bolt driver, Olorunfemi Temitope in Akure, the Ondo state capital, have been paraded by the state police command
Temitope was killed by the mob who alleged that he was an Internet fraudster after his car crushed four persons to death.
Six other persons who sustained serious injuries are still on admission at the hospital.
The state police command said that the suspects would be charged to court for murder and arson.