The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Idowu Owohunwa, has ordered the immediate removal of the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Meiran Police Station in the State, for supervisory incompetence.
The removal of the DPO followed an allegation of extortion by some policemen attached to the station against a phone engineer, Ibrahim Saliu.
Saliu had accused the policemen of extorting N200,000 from him on Saturday after detaining him and his brother, Olaiya Murtala, for not providing an identity card or the receipts for the iPhones found with his brother.
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The State’s police command spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the removal of the DPO in a statement yesterday.
Hundeyin says that all the officers involved in the alleged extortion had been identified and were currently at the command headquarters, where their orderly room trial had commenced.
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