The Police Command in Lagos State has announced the dismissal of Sgt. Ekpo Shimuyere who was attached to Sogunle Division for extorting a young man of N98,000.
The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin
Hundeyin told newsmen on Wednesday that the Provost Department of the command
had already disrobed the dismissed sergeant.
According to him, the dismissed sergeant
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.
Hundeyin said that the action of the
policeman was contrary to the ethics of the profession.
“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 will 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 to before transferring the money 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,” Hudenyi added.
He said that the Sergeant was consequently
subjected to an Orderly Room trial in line with extant laws.
“The Commissioner of Police, Lagos Command,
Mr Idowu Owohunwa, have reviewed the orderly room procedure of the officer with
Force No. 461654, attached to Sogunle Police Division and has approved the
punishment of dismissal from the Force,” he said.
Hundeyin said that the commissioner warned
officers and men against any form of corruption, stressing that the dismissal
was to serve as a deterrent to others.
He further warned that the command would
continue to punish any police officer found to have engaged in unprofessional
conduct.
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