NIGERIA: Two officers recount how they were dismissed for refusing N8m .

In March 2020, Babatunde Glorious and Shola Akawo were tried at the orderly room in ‘A’ Division at Kwara State Police Command for allegedly extorting a crime suspect. They were subsequently dismissed from the police even though the allegations against them were not established with evidence. <br /><br />However, they have narrated how they were falsely accused of fraud and dismissed for refusing an N8 million bribe to compromise a case.<br /><br />One of the officers, Glorious said that he was unjustly dismissed from the force for refusing to compromise an armed robbery case after he was offered the money from a “top senior police officer”.<br /><br />Narrating the incident to Punch, he pointed out that in December 2018, one Dr Abdulrazak Omawumi came to their office to lodge a complaint about the theft of his car and other valuables on which they began investigation.<br /><br />He said, “2019, August, we saw the signal, we saw the location of the vehicle and the location of the vehicle was reading Keffi, Nassarawa State.<br /><br />“We called the doctor to inform him of the location of his stolen vehicle. He came, we told him the location of the vehicle and he agreed to follow us to Nassarawa State.”<br /><br />Akawo, the other officer said that when they got to the Nassarawa with the complainant, they recovered the doctor’s car and four other cars stolen by the same suspects.<br /><br />The suspects were arrested and taken to the Kwara State Police Command. It was there the dismissed officers were approached by a serving police officer under communication Ajibola Tawa.<br /><br />She allegedly said the arrested suspects were her brothers and the former officers should try and help her.<br /><br />Akawo said that “On getting to the cell to feed the suspects, I met Tawa Ajibola, woman sergeant serving in communication along with Supa Ali Abdulkaduri ASP, serving in state CID who is now the OC in Ajadi’s farm in Ilorin, the gang leader discussing with the suspect, John Okpabile in the cell.”<br /><br />He said h