THE Ogun State Police Command has dismissed three officers over alleged armed robbery and extortion.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Abiodun Alamutu disclosed this on Tuesday while parading suspects at the state headquarters in Eleweran, Abeokuta.
The police officers were paraded alongside 27 other suspected kidnappers, armed robbers and cultists.
Alamutu told newsmen that the three police officers and a civilian were arrested following a report by one Kashimao Emmanuel, a student at Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED), Ijagun, Ijebu-Ode.
The suspects are Inspector Taiwo Kolawole, Inspector John Ogbe and Cpl Idowu Sunday, all attached to the Ijebu-Ife division, and one civilian, Adesiyan Mathew, said to be the driver.
Alamutu said the complainant reported that while he was driving in his Toyota Venza, with the number plate, No. LSD 813 EX, he was accosted by a gang of four armed men, one of whom was in police round neck camouflage, while the three others were in mufti.
The victim was quoted to have said that the gang demanded his phone, but he declined.
“In the process, one of them fired a shot into the air and that was when he complied. They entered into his car and took him away towards Sagamu expressway. On getting to Ososa, they made a U-turn to Ijebu-Ode, where a sum of N300,000 was forcefully transferred from his account to an Opay account no. 9097829766,” Alamutu said.
The CP said during the investigation, two other complainants who were victims at various times, came forward and identified the suspects to have earlier robbed them of their belongings in the same manner.
Alamutu said the policemen had been tried in orderly room and dismissed.
“They will be charged to court soonest,” he said.
Alamutu said six rifles with breach no: 23286 with 10 rounds of live ammunition, one AK-47 rifle with breach no: 804274 with six rounds of ammunition, one Toyota Camry marked APP 684 DX, were recovered from the suspects as exhibits.
