The Rivers State Police command has arrested and detained four Police Officers attached to Puff Adder tactical Police unit who allegedly extorted 204,000 naira from one Mr.Kingsley Dike Level 200 Student of Ignatius Ajuru University.
Their arrest followed an order by the Commissioner of Police, CP Eboka Friday shortly after members of the Centre for Basic Rights Protection and Accountability Campaign led the student to the office of the Commissioner of Police, CP Eboka Friday on Monday (7/03/2022) to lodge a formal compliant on the matter.
Speaking on the development, a Lawyer with the Rights group Charles Obiorah Edward commended CP Eboka for the step he took on the matter .
Mr Edward further urged the Police to ensure a thorough investigation into the matter and if any of the officer is found culpable ,they should be arraigned in court to serve as detterent to others.
Meanwhile the Student,Mr Dike in an interview with Journalists explained that he was on his way home last week Friday at about 10pm in a bolt when the Policemen stopped him and brought him down from the vehicle.
Mr Dike said after a search was conducted on him and his fellow student,the Police men still took them to their base in Aluu despite the fact that nothing was found on them.Mr Dike disclosed that at the station, the Police officers ordered him to remove the code on his phone and went through the phone and found nothing.
Mr Dike revealed that the Police officer threw them in the cell on Friday night and brought them out on Saturday morning (5/03/2022) and ordered them with threats to write in their statement that they were internet fraudsters.
The student explained that for fear of being killed they wrote they were internet fraudsters after which the Police officers gave them an account number which they transferred 204,000 naira to before they were released on Saturday.
As at press time the accused Police Officers are being detained at State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), PortHarcourt while the money allegedly extorted by the Police Officers from the student has been recovered.
