“Police extorted me for holding bottle of coke” – 24-year-old businessman

A forex exchange business man has accused the officers of the Osun State Police Command of harassing him over a bottle of coke and extorting him.

Pius Perfect said that three police men accosted him while he was on a motorcycle “for holding the bottle of coke”.

The 24-year-old said he was on a business visit when he was stopped by the officers around the government house road on June 8.

“I was on a motorcycle and was holding a bottle of coke, thankfully I’ve not opened it.

“They threw the coke away, took my phone and told me to get into the commercial bus they used for patrol” the delta state indigene said.

Pius said he was left with no choice but to enter the bus when the policemen became violent.

“Once I was in the bus, they told me to unlock my phone and they drove towards the outskirts of Osogbo and they picked up other people along the way.

“They checked my phone and didn’t find anything incriminating, then one of them said if I don’t confess that I’m an internet fraudster, I would be in trouble”.

He said when he couldn’t bear the harassment again, he told the officers to take him to the station to officially lodge the arrest but the policemen told him he couldn’t dictate to them.

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Perfect said that the officers demanded a fine to facilitate his release which he made electronically to a bank account, with the name Oyebiyi Saidi belonging to one of the officers.

“They told me that if they take me to the station, I will be there till Monday because it was on a Friday. When they discovered I wasn’t compromising, they said I had to settle them to let me go.

“When they checked my phone, they went through my account balance and they said I had money I don’t want to give them but I told them that the money was not mine, but they said I was lying and won’t let me go till I settle them.

“After dragging the matter, I later agreed to make a transfer to them and in the process, I was able to get the picture of one of them who I called the account number I made the payment to,” Perfect said.