In a fresh development, the police command in Lagos State have cast their security net after some unscrupulous Point of Sale (POS) operators who ply their trade near stations in a bid to aid extortion and swindling.
SP Benjamin Hundeyin who is the Public Relations Officer, made the disclosure in a Twitter post.
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The police observed that those in the business specialize in hanging around police stations. Investigations found that customers are innocent Nigerians being extorted by some recalcitrant personnel.
“Their presence around the stations has made the extortion game a lot easier”, the command complained.
Nothing that the force continually purges itself of bad officers, the police said was high time POS operators were regulated.
Hundeyin added that the action was “in line with the mandate of not just detecting but also preventing crime”.
“To this end, anyone found to have knowingly enabled extortion will be treated as an accomplice”, the PRO said.
In another report, some of the security operatives of the Kwara Police Command have rescued a Chinese national who had been abducted by gunmen on the 3rd of July at a construction site on Shao-Oloru Expressway.
Police spokesman SP Ajayi Okasanmi had also made this disclosure on Friday.
He had clearly stated that some of the police operatives who were on the rescue mission were still in the bushes to arrest the culprits.
Okasanmi had also added that the rescued Chinese is currently undergoing a medical examination to ascertain his state of health before his reunion with his family.
“The pressure mounted on the kidnappers by the rescue teams became so intense that the criminals could no more stand the heat, forcing them to abandon the victim and escape for their lives.
“In another development, operatives apprehended some suspects trafficking in human body parts as they were taking a human skull from Lagos State into Ilorin
“On the strength of information received operatives arrested a 41-year-old man in Ilorin for the crime.
“The suspect had earlier received the package from a motor park. Upon a search, a human skull concealed in a carton with his name and phone number inscribed on it was recovered.
“Preliminary investigation into the matter revealed that the suspect actually procured the human skull, a horse head, a chimpanzee head and other items.
“The other items were recovered in his house and he confessed he intended to use them for money-making rituals,’’ he stated.
