Some senior police officers, especially at the investigation
arm of the Nigeria police, are working against the anti-corruption policy of
the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun.
Our findings show that a Deputy Inspector General of Police due for retirement this December seems to be the frontrunner for those who oppose the IGP's policy.
Our reporter has been following the case of one Okubajo Segun, who returned to Nigeria from Germany to invest in Nigeria due to his father's advice, Okubajo Kehinde.
On returning to Nigeria, he decided to go into farming to sustain the Federal Government's food supply chain.
He decided to purchase some Hilux pickups for his farming business, not knowing that that would be the beginning of his predicament in the hands of the Nigeria Police.
The car dealer was an informant to a team of inspectors from the Force CIID Abuja.
He quickly called the team leader, one Inspector Mohammed Yusuf, to inform them that he had another viable suspect for them to swap on.
Okubajo Segun was picked up from the gate of his house in Lekki and brought straight to Abuja without any letter of invitation or warrant of arrest.
After searching his phone, they discovered a huge amount of money in the account; he was now directed to their standby Bureau D' Exchange Mallam to change the entire money in his account to dollars.
The sum of N151,500,000 (one hundred and fifty-one million, five hundred thousand naira only) was converted to dollars and shared among the four inspectors, namely Mohammed Yusuf (team leader), Ojochenemi Jubrin, Rizana Reuben, and Isokpumu John.
Okubajo Segun was forced to return to Germany after emptying his account with the four inspectors.
His father, Okubajo Kehinde, couldn't hold back the maltreatment and injustice his son went through at the hands of the four inspectors, hence petitioning the Inspector General of Police to come to his rescue and get justice with the return of the N151,500,000 (one hundred and fifty-one million, five hundred thousand naira only) collected from his son's account.
The case was referred to the IGP Special Investigation Units at the Force Headquarters for proper investigation. The DIG who supervises the inspectors seems to be in the know about the N151,500,000 (one hundred and fifty-one million, five hundred thousand naira only), as he initially refused to release the inspectors for investigations until a call came from above to the DIG to release those inspectors for investigations.
The DIG seems to be frustrating the case now as he teleguides the investigating officer on what to ask the four inspectors and tries to rubbish the anti-corruption policy of the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun.
Speaking to our correspondent, a family friend of the victim said, "The police are making Segun's father regret telling his son to come back home to invest in Nigeria. How can they just collect his entire savings in the sum of N151,500,000 (one hundred and fifty-one million, five hundred thousand naira only)? Now Segun is afraid of coming back to Nigeria again due to the maltreatment he got from the FCIID police personnel.
"If we don't get justice by the coming week, we don't have a choice but to approach the National Security Adviser, the National Assembly, and the Police Service Commission to present our case of extortion and injustice.
"I heard the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, is interested in the case, but the DIG is blocking all avenues to get justice in the case as he is trying to cover up those 4 inspectors who allegedly have been doing hatchet jobs for him, the family friend said.
Efforts to reach the Force Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Police, Muyiwa Adejobi, proved abortive.
