Four policemen arrested for allegedly extorting N53,000 from ICPC chairman

Four policemen arrested for allegedly extorting N53,000 from ICPC chairman

Four policemen have been arrested for allegedly extorting N50,000 from the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Musa Abdullahi.

The four policemen allegedly extirted their victim during an illegal stop-and-search operation in Abuja.

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Sanusi, made this known at a press briefing on Monday in Abuja.

He said that the policemen abandoned their assigned duty posts, mounted an unauthorised checkpoint around Banex area in Wuse, and made the ICPC chairman to withdraw N53,000 through a Point of Sale (PoS) operator.

“I must say here too that we have about four policemen in custody as we speak who successfully extorted somebody of high importance, unknown to them that this person is a highly placed person in society,” Sanusi said.

“In clear terms, they extorted the chairman of the ICPC. They extorted him of N53,000.

“They took him to a PoS, he withdrew the money, paid the charges and they shared the money among themselves.

“They are a gang of criminals who left various divisions, clustered together, moved to Wuse Banex and created a checkpoint where they perpetrated this act before fleeing.”

The police commissioner said the command declared the officers wanted before arresting the alleged gang leader, whose confession led investigators to the other members of the syndicate.

“We got all of them. We are going to make sure they are severely punished,” he said, adding that “those that are going to be dismissed will definitely be dismissed.”