By Oluwatoyin Adegoke
The Ogun State Police Command says it has commenced the process of disciplinary actions against the Police officers accused in a viral video of alleged assault and extortion at a checkpoint around Ijagun junction near Tai Solarin University of Education.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Omolola Odutola who made this known to newsmen in Abeokuta said the Provost department of the Police was handling the disciplinary proceedings.
The PPRO explained that preliminary investigation had indicated the officers’ misconduct, while the account number into which the money extorted was deposited had also been traced with the money recovered as exhibits.
She stated that the Inspector, Rank and File had been detained for orderly room trial, and others involved had been issued official query as directed by the Commissioner of Police, Mr Abiodun Alamutu.
Ms Odutola who restated that the Command would not tolerate any form of infringement on the rights of citizens or acts of misconduct among the officers and men promised that the outcome of the orderly room proceedings would be made public after the necessary investigation.
The complaint, 24-year-old Miss Abidemi Soyemi had raised the alarm that a team of mobile police personnel had assaulted her on the 13th of January 2024 while she was taking her siblings to the campus of Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ijebu Ode.
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