Juliana Francis
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Benjamin Hundeyin, has threatened that any Point of Sale (POS) operator, discovered to be enabling police personnel to extort Nigerians would be dealt with.
The image maker stated this today on his tweeter handle.
According to him, it has been observed over time that some roving POS operators specialised in hanging around police stations to help some unscrupulous police personnel extort Nigerians.
The investigation, said Hundeyin, has revealed that the target of these POS operators were innocent Nigerians being extorted by some recalcitrant police officers.
He said: “Their presence around the stations has made the extortion game a lot easier. While the Force continually purges itself of these bad officers, it has become imperative that the activities of POS operators around police stations be regulated as some of them have been identified to be enablers of extortion. This regulation is in line with our 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.”
