₦airaland Forum

Akure—A nursing mother and her son were injured in
an accident caused by attempt by a policeman to extort
N100 from a commercial motorcyclist, Okadaman, in
Ondo town, Ondo State.
Eyewitness account said trouble started when a team
of anti-crime police officers attached to one of the
police stations in the town allegedly mounted a road
block in one of the major roads.
Vanguard learned that one of the officers, in an
attempt to stop the Okada rider, pulled down the boy
and mother, while the motorcycle was in motion.
Mother and child were rushed to the hospital, while
commercial motorcycle operators staged a peaceful
protest to show their displeasure over alleged
incessant extortion by policemen in the town.
Vanguard gathered that the protest, which started at
about 9:30a.m. was led by leaders of the association.
They reportedly protested to all the three divisional
police stations in the town.
Spokesman of Okadamen, Timilehon Akinrolabu,
condemned the attitude of the policemen, who he said
were in the habit of extortion at illegal road block in
strategic locations in the town.
He said: “We decided to embark on the peaceful protest
to tell the police that we are tired with the way they
extort money from our members.
“This is common when the month is about to end as
they would be looking for their monthly contributions,
at times they usually used their patrol vehicles to raid
our parks and arrest our members over flimsy
excuses.”
However, the state police command has, however,
denied the allegation of extortion by its officers.
A top police officer in Ondo town said that Okada riders
who were arrested had no identification numbers on
the motorcycles.
Speaking in confidence, the officer added that the
directive was to guide against crime in the state.
“The police in this town are not enforcing the law at all;
they are extorting money from our members,
demanding N100 and N50.
“Another aspect of the story is that when the
Okadamen get go their stations, each have to cough out
between N1,500 and N2,000 for bail.”

And IGP Arase is there playing APC/PDP politics!

48noble:
And IGP Arase is there playing APC/PDP politics!

Most police officers r fake nd thieves!!

kelvee:
Most police officers r fake nd thieves!!

Later somebody will come n say police is ur friend...(For where!) Uniform thieves increasing their agression in this Buhari period.

I wish Buhari will sack policemen like banks r doing their staff,they r d ones ruining d economic life of many hard working Nigerians who r not ready to look for white collar jobs. They don't catch thieves but give them their police guns.

I passed through the town. It's true the police there are extortionists