Sodiq Oyeleke


The Inspector-General of Police has commended police officers for rejecting N300,000 bribe and returning N600,000 paid into one of their accounts in error.

The police boss charged Senior Police Officers to always commend their personnel who have exemplarily excelled in their duties, which have in turn impacted positively on the goodwill and image of the Nigeria Police Force.

He said this in a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, on Tuesday.

“The IGP made the charge while commending the exemplary performances of some officers and men across the State Commands, particularly Sergeant Sampson Ekikere, attached to 22 Police Mobile Force, Ikeja, Lagos, for his uncommon professionalism exhibited on Saturday, 19th March 2022, when he painstakingly recovered a wallet, belonging to one Mr. Lukman Abaja, and traced the owner to deliver the found item.

“He equally commended Sergeant Yahaya Ahmed attached to Higher Shari’ah Court, Tudun Wada Division, Gusau, Zamfara State, for rejecting the sum of N300, 000 bribe, offered to him by one Chukwuka Jude, who was arrested at the same court on 18th January, 2022 for the offence of false presentation and cheating by impersonation.

“Also commended was CSP Elemide Akinkunmi Bishop who was Head of Operations at the Police Radio. CSP Bishop was mistakenly credited with the sum of N600,000 into his Police Account. The officer withdrew the sum and remitted it back to the Nigeria Police Cooperative Society treasury, showing attributes of an honest and trustworthy police officer,” the statement added.

Baba, however, assured the entire Police workforce of sustainable efforts in improving their condition of service.

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Reading through this, it sounded more to me like commending a nurse for finding and injecting the right vein of a patient or cheering one's father for providing your feeding money.

Save for the reality that these institutions are grossly corrupt, who would high-five an officer for turning down bribe and retuning a wrongly-transferred fund? Were they meant to take it in the first place?

Unfortunately, this is a big thing coming from them. Was it not our Super Cop who was busted for being a syndicate to a fraudster?