A sergeant, Ekpo Shimuyere, attached to Sogunle Division of the Lagos State Police Command has been dismissed.
Shimuyere’s appointment with the police was terminated for allegedly extorting a young man of N98,000.
Confirming the development to newsmen on Wednesday, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, stated that the Provost Department of the command had already disrobed the dismissed sergeant.
The disgraced police officer, contrary to the ethics of the profession, collected the phone of his victim and used a POS operator to transfer N98,000 out of the N100,000 in the young man’s bank account.
The police image maker recounted, “Police got the complaint from the victim, and the officer denied the crime when he was contacted. The command placed him under detention so that he would not tamper with the evidence.
“We wrote to his bank and obtained his statement of account. We were able to trace the money to where the POS operator transferred it before transferring it to the officer’s account.
“We followed due process to get his account. The victim was invited in the course of the investigation, and he testified.
“The POS operator was also invited, and he said the officer requested him to transfer the money from the victim’s account to another one.”
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Meanwhile, a Court in Akure, Ondo State has sentenced a man, Gbenga Akintola, to 21 years imprisonment for involvement in robbery.
Akintola was apprehended by the Amotekun command and the police in Ondo town in 2021 for using dangerous weapons such as cutlasses to rob three individuals of their money and valuables.
He was later charged and brought before the court on five counts, including conspiracy to commit armed robbery and armed robbery.
Police prosecutor, Inspector Alako Abdulahi, testified that the Amotekun Corps brought Akintola to the police station on October 19, 2021, with four mobile phones, a motorcycle, a bag, and a small purse retrieved from him.
However, the convict argued that he bought the motorcycle from a man named Sunday Igbo, and he was not aware that it was stolen.
He also claimed that the stolen items were found in Sunday’s house, but Sunday was nowhere to be found. He stated that the police threatened to charge him with robbery if he did not pay N200,000 to secure his release.
Justice William Olamide delivered the verdict, acquitting the convict of charges two, four, and five due to insufficient evidence to link the cutlass found in his house to the robbery charge.
However, the court found him guilty of conspiracy and robbery and sentenced him to 21 years in prison for robbery and seven years for conspiracy, to be served concurrently.