How Four Police Officers Were Arrested Over Alleged Extortion

AISHA ABUBAKAR

Four Police officers have been arrested and taken into custody over alleged involvement in extortion while on duty in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.

In a trending video online, the Police officers, said to be from FCT Command, were reportedly captured extorting money from a commuter at Area 11, Abuja.

The victim was said to have withdrawn some money from a GTBank ATM located within the area and was seen handing over the cash to some Police officers waiting by a Police van parked across the street.

The trending video eventually attracted the attention of the Police authorities. 

The FCT Commissioner of Police, CP Sunday Babaji, in a statement issued on Wednesday by the Command’s spokesperson, Josephine Adeh, ordered an investigation into the matter.