The Kwara State Police Commissioner, Mr Kayode Egbetokun, has approved the dismissal of four police officers found guilty of serious offences bothering on indiscipline.
Eight others were awarded various punishments, while three lucky others were discharged and acquitted.
A statement by the spokesman of the police command, SP Okasanmi Ajayi, in Ilorin on Saturday, said the duo of ex-Sergent Sola Akano, and ex- Corporal Babatunde Glorious, were alleged to have illegally arrested a suspect, booked the suspect already in their custody out on enquiry, but took him to his bank at Zenith bank, Unity road, Ilorin, where he was made to empty his bank account, withdrawing the sum of 1,190,000 naira, which the dismissed officers collected from him.
The statement said not done, they again demanded and insisted on the sum of 200,000 naira bail, which they also collected from members of the suspect’s family before releasing him.
Further, it said, the duo also seized the two phones of the suspect and as at the time of their arrest, the two phones had already been checked and converted to their personal use.
Okasanmi informed that it was after the suspect regained his freedom, that the matter was brought before the Police Commissioner, who ordered the investigation of the two ex-non commissioned officers.
It was discovered that Babatunde Glorious had also converted one of the two phones seized from the suspect, an iPhone 11 promax, to his personal use with many of his personal pictures and pictures of members of his family seen on the phone.
In approving their dismissal, the Police Commissioner condemned their conduct and dismissed insinuations by the disciplined officers that they were punished unjustly as mere falsehood, fabricated with the hope to ambush justice already dispensed in the matter.
