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REAVEALED: Identities Of Rogue Police Officers Who Extorted N22million Worth Of Bitcoin From Young Men At Gunpoint In Lagos

A Deputy Superintendent of Police with force number 14534, Cordelia Nwawe, and Inspector Austin, both attached to Force Criminal Investigation Department Annex, Alagbon Close, Lagos State, have been identified as officers who extorted N22million worth of bitcoin from two young Nigerians, Morakinyo Tobiloba Peter and Yusuf Samson Dayo.

SaharaReporters had reported that Peter and Dayo, both realtors, were stopped on July 14, 2021 while driving along the Ikoyi/Ajah Expressway by a team of police officers in mufti led by Austin, who adopted a fictitious name “Osas”.

Inspector Austin and Cordelia Nwawe.
The duo said they were treated like criminals while Nwawe, a former Public Relations Officer of the Sokoto and Akwa-Ibom states police commands respectively asked the officers to kill them if they cannot pay N20million as bail.

“We were driving on the Ikoyi/Ajah Expressway precisely at 1004 on the 14th of July 2021, when a team of police officers in mufty accosted us and ordered us to park. We parked and the police officers jumped into the car and ordered us to open our phones,” one of the victims had told SaharaReporters.

“Since we have nothing to hide, we gave them our phones and they found nothing incriminating. To our surprise, they ordered us to drive down to their office, we insisted we must know our offences before we can move down to the station. But the police officers descended on us and beat us for disobedience. They claimed we were too fresh not to be a fraudster. We begged them and showed them that we are realtors. We gave them our identity cards and showed them some of our ongoing projects but they insisted we were fraudsters.

“When we got to the police station at FCID Annex, Alagbon Close, Lagos, we were quickly pushed into the cell and they went away with our mobile phones. The police officers returned some hours later and told us we were trading in Bitcoins.

“Before we know it, they started beating us and calling us Yahoo boys, we told them we were not Yahoo boys. We explained that we are realtors and it was because of the decline in naira that we converted our money into bitcoin, but they kept beating us and they said we should write statement around 8:00pm in the night,” he added.

The duo added that the statements written by them were torn into pieces by the policemen while they were forced to sign another ones written by the officers alleging that they were Internet fraudsters.

“We wrote the statements and they tore it into pieces and wrote another statement for us and forced us to sign it. We did signed the statement and they took them before their boss, DSP Cordelia Nwawe with force number 145341, section, FCID Annex, Alagbon Lagos,” they added.

“Mrs Uwawe asked her officers what happened and they narrated the whole story to her, they told her we are Yahoo boys which we denied and the woman said they should give us bail condition, they demanded N20million from us and when we said we don't have such amount of money, the woman said they should go and kill us if we insist we cannot pay them N20million as bail.

“Officer Austin who led the team also adopted a fictitious name so that people will not know his true name. He was addressed as Osas by DSP Uwawe, he was the one who took us to the cell and threatened to kill the two of us if we cannot transfer the N20million in bitcoin to them.

“So when he bought out his gun and was taking us out of the cell to kill us as ordered by her boss, DSP Uwanue, we now succumbed to him and said he should remove the money from our , he insisted he wanted bitcoin and not naira, he provided another bitcoin and he transferred N22million equivalent of bitcoin from our .”

They urged human rights activists and the government to intervene on their behalf.

Speaking on the incident, a human rights lawyer, Adegbola Odunyemi asked the Inspector-General of Police to investigate the matter.

“I hereby call on well meaning Nigerians to prevail on the office of the Inspector-General of Police; Minister of Police Affairs; Chairman, Police Service Commission; Speaker, House of Representatives; the Senate President and His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, to help us recover this money from these criminal elements parading themselves as police officers.

“My clients are realtors and it was because of the decline in naira that made them to convert their money into bitcoin, they are not Yahoo boys.”

http://saharareporters.com/2021/12/19/reavealed-identities-rogue-police-officers-who-extorted-n22million-worth-bitcoin-young#:~:text=A%20Deputy%20Superintendent%20of%20Police,Nigerians%2C%20Morakinyo%20Tobiloba%20Peter%20and

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Even police women have such dirty and wicked hearts? They have bitcoin to receive bitcoin payments so if the boys are 'yahoo' for having bitcoin , It means the police team are also 'yahoo'

Nigerian police never fails to embarrass this nation

Dec has reached so am not suprise

But true true the victim fvckup real time..

It’s high time they scrap the police and replace them with the Civil Defense corps pending reorganization of a new Nigerian Police

Wait o. So if you cannot bail yourself you'll be sentenced to death by DPO. when this nonsense start na?

The story is untrue.
1. Police asked for 200 million naira bail for doing nothing

2. You transferred 20 million naira worth of bitcoin to Austin. How many millions of naira worth of bitcoin do you have?

Get a good lawyer bro

This story is somehow sha.

Just like a case of thief thief thief.

I wish the parties involved well sha.

Name checkers

Ok

The only difference between these people and the everyday thugs/criminals is just the uniform..

‘’Army rubber’’ in police disguise

Issokay

God save us from the corrupt systems in every institution in this country.
The female police boss Nwawe is even into it? . Nawa ooo

Biafrans...We soon send them packing

greatdreamer:
The story is untrue.
1. Police asked for 200 million naira bail for doing nothing

2. You transferred 20 million naira worth of bitcoin to Austin. How many millions of naira worth of bitcoin do you have?

Your name should be a great dreamer! (Oh, it already is)

1. They (police) did something. They profiled the men and chose to intimidate and pseudo-kidnap them. The money was a ransom named bail.

2. This also boils down to profiling. The average policeman/woman is way smarter than the average Nigerian.
You can't be the verified owner of 30m Naira car while brandishing 1 or 2 thousand dollar phones in their faces and not have liquid 100m. Police smart and WOoKed!
(There are foolish exceptions though. I know a 40m friend that bought a 25m car. That's foolish)

Na why I no dey ever pity dem whenever tragedy befalls them...

Na bullies full all these so called armed forces.

Na so these idiots begin shoot sporadically in a rowdy market last night.

What a country.


Even the police is worse off the government officials

greatdreamer:
The story is untrue.
1. Police asked for 200 million naira bail for doing nothing

2. You transferred 20 million naira worth of bitcoin to Austin. How many millions of naira worth of bitcoin do you have?

You are very stewpeed I swear. Which kind stupid question you dey ask. 20m is not even up to 1btc and some people even get 5btc sef.

The investigators must unravel how many they have killed in that manner.

To even think a woman, who ordinarily should be comionate, was alleged to have given the order makes more disturbing.

greatdreamer:
The story is untrue.
1. Police asked for 200 million naira bail for doing nothing

2. You transferred 20 million naira worth of bitcoin to Austin. How many millions of naira worth of bitcoin do you have?

Are you living in Nigeria?

Hmmm Nigerian bitcoin police

greatdreamer:
The story is untrue.
1. Police asked for 200 million naira bail for doing nothing

2. You transferred 20 million naira worth of bitcoin to Austin. How many millions of naira worth of bitcoin do you have?

20M not 200M is what was asked

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