Three Police Officers Dismissed For Alleged Armed Robbery, Extortion
Three police officers have been dismissed by the Ogun State dismissed by for alleged armed robbery and extortion.
Ogun State Police Commissioner, Abiodun Alamutu, who disclosed this on Tuesday while parading the suspects alongside 27 other suspected kidnappers, armed robbers, and cultists, at the state headquarters in Eleweran, Abeokuta.
The CP said that the three police officers and a civilian were arrested following a report by one Kashimao Emmanuel, a student of Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED), Ijagun, Ijebu-Ode.
The suspects are Inspector Taiwo Kolawole, and Inspector John Ogbe, both attached to the Ijebu-Ife division, Cpl Idowu Sunday was attached to Ijebu-Ife, and one civilian, Adesiyan Mathew, who was said to be the driver.
According to Alamutu, the complainant reported that while he was driving in his Toyota Venza car, with registration no: LSD 813 EX brown in colour, he was accosted by a gang of four armed men and one of them was putting on a Police round neck camouflage, while 3 others were on mufti.
He quoted him to have said that the gang demanded his phone, but he declined.
“In the process, one of them fired a shot into the air and that was when he complied. They entered into his car and took him away towards Sagamu expressway, on getting to Ososa, they made a u-turn to Ijebu-ode, where a sum of N312,000 was forcefully transferred from his account to an Opay account no. 9097829766,” Alamutu said.
The police CP further explained that during investigation, two other complainants who were victims at various times came forward and identified the suspects to have earlier robbed them of their belongings in the same manner.
Alamutu said the policemen had been tried in an orderly room and dismissed, adding that they would be charged to court soonest.
He also revealed that six rifles with breach no: 23286 with 10 rounds of live ammunition, one AK47 rifle with breach no: 804274 with six rounds of ammunition, and one Toyota Camry car marked APP 684 DX, were recovered from the suspects as exhibits.
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