Police Now Charge As High As N300,000 For Their Services – Lawyer Alleges

• A sad discovery has been made by a lawyer and human rights activist, as she alleges the police now commercialize their services.

• In a post shared online, she added that the police now charge as high as N300,000 for their service.

An attorney and human rights activist, Prof. Joy Ngozi Ezeilo has alleged that the Nigerian police now extort money from people.

According to a post shared on her twitter handle on Monday, October 21, she claimed that the police now charge as high as N300,000 before responding to emergencies.

She wrote;

“These days, the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) has started commercializing their services, charging fixed amounts as high as 300k (in Enugu, for example), and hardly responds to poor crime victims requiring their intervention,”

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She further stated that victims of police brutality during the EndSars protest have been received justice.

“I was a part of the #ENDSARS Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality.

“It’s disheartening that justice has not been served, and the decisions from the various Panels of Inquiry nationwide have yet to be implemented,” she wrote.