Lagos CP, Owohunwa orders removal of DPO

Commissioner for Police, Lagos State, Idowu Owohunwa, has ordered the immediate removal of the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Okokomaiko police station.

Spokesman for the State Command, Benjamin Hundeyin, made this known on his verified twitter handle on Saturday.

Hundeyi, who withheld the name of the DPO and other indicted officers, explained that the DPO was removed for his lack of supervision of the officers in the Division.

He added that disciplinary action had been initiated against the DPO and some officers at the station.

” CP Idowu Owohunwa has ordered the immediate removal of DPO Okokomaiko for his lack of supervision of his men. CP Owohunwa has also ordered commencement of disciplinary action against him and all his indicted officers (who are already in the state headquarters),” Hundeyin said.

It would be recalled that there was a viral media report about a mobile phone dealer at the Alaba International Market, Lagos, who identified himself as Onyinyechi Anwusi, lamenting how some policemen forcefully extorted N100,000 from him without finding incriminating evidence on him.

The policemen were attached to Okokomaiko division.

A copy of the transaction receipt in the sum of N101,000 generated from Access Bank mobile App by the victim went viral as well.

The receipt showed that the money was received by Ndueso Okon Archibong with the account number 9550455342, PalmPay Limited.

The victim narrated that the police officers accosted and searched him without warrant, then forced him to unlock his mobile phone and search through the contents of his phone but nothing incriminating was found.

He added that the officers thereafter forced him to write a statement under duress indicting himself as an internet fraudster popularly known as “Yahoo Yahoo boy” and forcefully made him the N100,000.

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