Outrage as police demand N50,000 from Enugu robbery victims

Condemnations have continued to trail the alleged N50,000 bribe that operatives of Enugu State Police Command allegedly demanded from some robbery victims in the state.

It was gathered that residents of Uwani, in Enugu, the state capital, were on Wednesday night robbed by a three-man gang. But luck ran out on one of them as a mob chased them, following shouts of help from the victims and one of the suspects was caught by the mob, with a laptop and mobile phones stolen from the victims recovered from him.

According to a source, “the mob descended on him and beat him to stupor. The police from Uwani Division later came and took him. However, the matter took another dimension as the police started demanding money from the victims.”

One of the victims told some journalists in Enugu that “the policemen earlier collected N15,000 from us after taking our statement.

The Sun, Friday 1, March

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