How police allegedly harassed, extorted students returning to school

The police officers allegedly extorted N40,000 from the students and held them until they missed their flightTwo university students heading to the airport in Lagos to board a flight back to school last weekend were harassed and extorted by police officers, the parent of one of them has said.

Evelyn Okonkwo, the mother of Michael Ekene, said the vehicle conveying her 20-year-old son and his colleague, Udochukwu Maduforo, to the airport was stopped by a team of police officers in front of Golden Tulip Hotel on Airport Road at about 11 a.m. on Saturday.Mrs Okonkwo said her son called her to inform her that they had been stopped by police officers and were being held at the airport road.

“They stopped them for no reason, searched, and could not find anything on them. I told my son to wait that I will to meet them at the location. “Before I could get to the place, he called again that the officers have allowed them to go after collecting N40,000 from the two of them. “They could not trace any of their names, they are small children, 20 years old. They collected N40, 000 from them before I got there and they missed their flight.”

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