LAGOS — In a bid to curb the excesses of policemen in the Lagos State Police Command, six policemen were, weekend, arrested by operatives of the Commissioner of Police X Squad for extortion.

Also arrested were two impersonators who wore Police uniform to escort a lorry and an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency, LASTMA for allegedly extorting money from a motorist.

Vanguard gathered that the policemen were arrested at Oyingbo and Gbagada areas of the state while allegedly extorting money from motorcycle and commercial bus operators.

Police sources who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the operatives who were ordered by the state Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, to rid the state of corrupt policemen, stormed Oyingbo, where they caught two Traffic Wardens and a conventional policeman attached to Area ‘C’ Command, at Oyingbo Bus-Stop, extorting money from commercial buses and lorry operators.

Three other policemen were caught allegedly extorting money from motorcycle riders within streets of Gbagada.

He also added that the arrested policemen will be tried by the provost department of the Command, while the impersonators will be charged to court.

“ We have handed over the LASTMA official and the money we caught him with to LASTMA authority for prosecution and we will charge the impersonators to court. But the six policemen will have to stand trial at the Provost Department with 17 others and if they are found guilty, they may be discharged from the service,” the source said.



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Splendid!!! This is a step in the right direction.

The efforts to rid the force of unscrupulous elements should be doubled..

GARRI (x7):
Splendid!!! This is a step in the right direction.

The efforts to rid the force of unscrupulous elements should be doubled..

Very true but change is a gradual process, it must be encouraged.

Pix pls

Number 4 today, very soon i will be first

Gr8 news!!

Nice one

Good for them...... meanwhile 4th to comment....... Dancing alingo on transformer

Operation catch d official thieves.
This is not what we need. We need transparency from above. Those below will surely follow d trend.

Stupid pple
God punish dem

Now after reading. Nice one, i hope all the state in naija will follow to, this will give police more respect in the country, if they continue cleaning the bad eggs among them, the police will have meaning in the country and also we will give them respect. The country is moving small small.

They should be charged as well!

Who told u that u are number 4?

solinho: Good for them...... meanwhile 4th to comment....... Dancing alingo on transformer

Na dem sabi...

This is a welcome development. More power to your elbow Mr Commissioner.

If only the arrested cops had offered the arresting cops proceeds of their extortion,I'm sure they wouldn't have been arrested.

Nigeria policemen are all the same everywhere.

offshoreking: Number 4 today, very soon i will be first

people like u add no value to this forum and shd be banned for life. As for the policemen, they shd be charged to court with immediate effect. The LASTMA or wateva officials shd be flogged 80 times befor charging them to court for stealing from their fellow civilians

Am happy to hear this most especially, this men in black are back to the street of Ifako, Gbagada, and Bariga environ extorting money from motorists. @ Lagos State Police command, pls intensify your effort to get rid of this bad eggs from the force.

pDude: Pix pls

Wait there, pictures are coming.

solinho: Good for them...... meanwhile 4th to comment....... Dancing alingo on transformer

Has nairaland announce a price tag for no 1 to 10 comments now? What is all this silly thing about? You guys should grow up ooo.

Lagos is the only place in Nigeria with law and order.

What's the guarantee this so called "X-squard" won't get as corrupt as the police and in this case who regulate them? It's like keeping a goat to protect a tuber of yam from other goats.

just hope dey won't sweep it under d carpet as usual..easier said Dan done.I await d final judgement.

Its nt a news anymore we've been hearing such @ the end nothing ll happen! Nice step if dey ll take it serious

This type of work been long overdue. Never too late to take a first step but I think the ones caught should not only be dismissed but sent to jail.

Na wa o. I be number 25 person to comment. abeg all of una wey dey enter number 1 to 10, na Nairaland una dey sleep?


Meanwhile @ OP, all na wash abegi!

Good development.

i luv to.to die:
[size=13pt]Please come to Area G of Ogba....Those police men there are giving us tough time. Now they have resulted to going into streets to raid any young man dey see on the road. They are embarrassing people on a daily basis. This people are making life a living hell for us. You cannot go out of your house without them embarrasing you. If they see a young man driving, they see it as a jackpot and they would fraustrate the living day light out of that guy. They go about in mufti to harass young men. They feel every young man is a yahoo boy. Make una come warn them for us o! [color=#990000]Boys don run comot from area cos of them, yet, they still dey find them go where dem go. [/color][/size]

area G full of mad people. one day, i enter their wahala when them see me with iPad. they begin ask me for the receipt. very crazy funny people.

If you caught them extorting motorists and Okada riders, why not let them face firing squad. Case closed and we'll save ourselves a lot of stress. Abi what do u think?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

With Policemen,then its true a leopard can never change its skin. Seems there's great connection btw Nigeria police,and Money.