Police men in Enugu were secretly recorded extorting youth corpers plying a major highway.
According to one of the Youth Corpers with Twitter handle Obiora, He was on his way back from the passing out parade (POP) with his colleagues on the highway from Enugu to Onitsha when they were flagged down by police men at a check post.
The police bullied them into accepting they were internet fraudsters and would shoot them if they they did not give the cops N300,000.
They managed to negotiate to N50,000 and the police accompanied them to an ATM machine to make the withdrawals. One of the police officers took time to count the money to ensure it was complet.
Unknown to the police men, on of them w capturing the scene on camera.
Obiora’s ordeal on twitter:
“Today, I experienced first hand, the devils called “Nigerian Police @PoliceNG_CRU.
“I want you to carefully go through my tweet and help me get the money they robbed me of back. I and my colleague were travelling from Enugu to Onitsha after our NYSC POP.
“We got at a particular junction in Enugu (Four Corner) where there was a police checkpoint. My friend was diving ahead of me. The police asked him to pull over and waved me to pass but because we were together, I had to pull over as well.
“They asked for the particulars of his vehicle and his driver’s licence which he provided and also told them he is an ex Corper travelling back to his base after the POP. Immediately, they labelled him an internet fraudster and said they have been dealing with a a lot of corpers plying same road who are internet fraudsters.
“I got involved and asked the officer what he meant because I know my friend is a legit business guy who is a betting agent. They refused and threatened to shoot at us if we do anything silly like making calls and all.
“We stayed cool and asked them why they were harassing us and they said they can’t repeat themselves because they are sure we are internet fraudsters (now they included me because I had to know what the problem was).
“The next thing they told us was if we knew what we want to do in Anambra is that important, we should give them 300k and then go our way ! They left us in awe and with the question of what did we do ? By then they have seized the key to my friend’s car and threatened to shoot and make a mess of us if we did anything silly.
We had no option than to bargain with them and they directed us to a POS where we did a cash back of 50K for them. That was the last money in my account and I have to get that money back.
Police extorting Youth Corpers ! This is sickening.
