How Policemen Stole ₦‎43.16 Million Out Of ₦‎74.9 Million Cash From The Owners

How Policemen Stole ₦‎43.16 Million Out Of ₦‎74.9 Million Cash From The Owners

Police at Power Base camp, yesterday, unveiled that scientific knowledge and examination concerning a supposed carrying embarrassment of new monetary orders totalling N74.95 million, which was being continued for clients, has uncovered that a few officials endeavored to take N43.16 million of the cash, News360 Nigeria reports.

Force Advertising Official, Mr Muyiwa Adejobi, who made this explanation against the background of virtual entertainment charges that the Investigator General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, was safeguarding a cartel of cash dealers, noticed: “This gathering of officials planned and took some portion of the cash, adding up to N43.16 million, and entrusted one of them to move the money out of the Government Capital Region for stowing away, forthcoming when the intensity blows over.”

He said the charge of money sneaking was entirely explored, the Cops found to have acted unlawfully by capturing the money and keeping a representative of the organization which claimed the cash without authorisation.

Adejobi’s assertion peruses, “The Nigeria Police Power has noted with concern the new claims flowing in the media, recommending that IGP Egbetokun, is protecting a cartel blamed for pirating dubious new banknotes from the National Bank of Nigeria.

“The NPF completely discredits these cases, censuring them as outlandish and arranged endeavors to discolor the IGP’s standing and the trustworthiness of the power.

‘The occurrence being referred to, which happened at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Worldwide Air terminal, Abuja, on August 26, 2023, has been entirely examined.

“The officials in question – DSP Peter Ejike (a legal counselor responsible for Zone 7 Legitimate Segment), Reviewer Ekende Edwin, Monitor Esther Okafor, and Sergeant Talabi Kayode, all connected to the Zone 7 Central command were found guilty and endorsed properly.

“These officials, drove by Auditor Esther Okafor, on the guidance of DSP Peter Ejike, unlawfully captured Andrew Ejah, a worker of FATFAD Freight Nigeria Restricted, who was conveying the money amount of N7.95million for clients.

“Acting without approval, they kept Mr. Ejah at the Zone 7 Central command, Abuja, and intentionally distorted the recuperated sum as N31.79 million.

‘The officials further requested a level of the assets to stifle the case.

“After being reached by the supposed proprietors of the cash, the officials guaranteed that the aggregate they had recuperated from the captured suspect was N31,790,000 and mentioned a level of the cash to risk examination and smother the case.

“Shocked by their activities, the cash proprietors appealed to the Power Central command, Abuja and the matter was coordinated to the IGP Checking Unit for Examination.

“During the cycle, the money amount of N31.79million was recuperated from the officials, who guaranteed that it was the complete cash recuperated from Andrew Ejah during his capture.

“After extreme examinations and a progression of preliminary before properly comprised disciplinary boards, it was found that the officials took photos of the suspect and the sacks of monies at the place of capture yet guaranteed the telephone they utilized was harmed and hence lost, trying to disguise their wrongdoing.

“Nonetheless, criminological knowledge showed that this gathering of officials plotted and took a piece of the cash, adding up to N43.16million, and entrusted one of them to move the money out of the FCT for concealing forthcoming when the intensity blows over.

“They, from there on, depended on a few stunts and contrivances to cover their tracks. One of which was the spread of this misleading account and deception to a few internet based web journals and paper stages.

“These officials have been suspended, being viewed as chargeable of significant wrongdoing, messing with displays, maltreatment of office, degenerate practice, unlawful obligation, and acts unsuitable of a cop.

“The development of such a measure of cash by the supposed freight organization might have been explored and dealt with expertly by the police, yet the officials were moved by covetousness and subsequently acted criminally and amateurishly.”