A Twitter user simply identified as @LifeOfNapaul has accused some policemen of extorting N40,000 from him and three other persons in Rivers State.
Narrating his ordeal in a series of tweets on Sunday evening, the victim said he boarded a public vehicle to a destination in Port Harcourt when the policemen stopped the vehicle and started searching him and three other passengers for incriminating evidence.
Noting that the policemen found nothing incriminating, the victim said the policemen demanded N50,000 from them, adding that he alongside the other three victims parted with N10,000 each before they were allowed to continue the journey.
His post read,
The victim said the encounter lasted for over one hour, adding that when he attempted to engage the policemen to resolve the matter peacefully, he was handcuffed.
He wrote,
The victim attached a picture of one of the policemen involved in the alleged extortion to the post.
Reacting, the Rivers State Police Command, in a tweet using its handle, @RiversPoliceNG, said the state Commissioner of Police, Nwonyi Emeka, condemned the action of the policemen.
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