LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Two Police officers identified as detectives of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) of the Rivers State Police Command have been arrested and detained over extortion.
This is following the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara’s complaints over reports of extortion, harassment of innocent citizens, and other criminal activities allegedly being carried out by operatives of disbanded ‘SARS’ officials in some parts of the state.
According to reports, the two detectives were arrested following a complaint by one of the victims of their extortions on Twitter.
It was gathered that the victim in his post tagged the Force Spokesperson, CSP Prince Adejobi Olumuyiwa.
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The spokesperson, upon receipt of the complaint from one of the victims tweeted, “So, PPRO Rivers come up and take up this case while we do the needful from Abuja.
“By now, we are not expected to still be seeing or hearing Policemen searching people’s phones on the road after several warnings from the IGP”.
The Rivers PPRO, SP Grace Iringe-Koko tweeted in response to the instruction of the Force PPRO, confirming the arrest of one of the Police Officers.
Upon visit by Commissioner of Police, CP Emeka Nwonyi, to the Governor, he further directed the Command to fish out and punish officers involved in the alleged harassment and extortion.
The Governor encouraged the CP to ensure that such extortion and harassments are stopped.