Four policemen allegedly extort ICPC chairman, arrested

Four policemen have been arrested and detained by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command for allegedly extorting N53,000 from the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Dr. Musa Aliyu (SAN).

The Commissioner of Police of the Command, CP Ahmed Sanusi, disclosed this to newsmen on Monday during a briefing.

According to Sanusi, the officers mounted an unauthorised checkpoint around the Banex area of Wuse after leaving their respective duty posts and extorted the ICPC chairman without knowing his identity.

He said the ICPC boss was forced to withdraw N53,000 through a Point of Sale operator and even paid the transaction charges before the officers shared the money among themselves.

He said: “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.

“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.”

Sanusi said the command declared the officers wanted before arresting their gang leader, whose confession led to the arrest of the other members of the syndicate.

He said: “We got all of them.

“We are going to make sure they are severely punished.

“Those that are going to be dismissed will definitely be dismissed.”