Policeman Accused Of Defrauding A Laundryman (See Details)

According to investigative journalist Fisayo Soyombo, Felix Sunday, also known as Sunshine, the policeman whose picture is attached to this article, collected a total of N140,000 to assist in solving a phone and N800,000 theft.

However, no investigations were conducted and no results were produced. To further complicate the issue, the policeman refused to refund the money he collected, and also ingnores the victim's calls.

The victim, a little known as Joseph Osaze, is said to have lost phone last year, precisely on October 2, 2019. He is said to have discovered that the criminal who stole his phone had transferred the sum of N800,000 from his bank accounts and further taken loans from his Access bank and Quick Cash accounts.

Laundryman Joseph Osaze is said to have approached Sunshine, an Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IGP-IRT), Lagos Command, for help. Sunshine however had reportedly asked for the sum of N20,000, which Osaze is said to have paid in cash on October 18, 2019.

Weeks later, after the criminal who was still in custody of the laundryman's phone, had recharged a particular Etisalat number with over N30,000 worth of airtime from the laundryman's account, Sunshine the policeman had claimed he had successfully tracked the location of the criminal but added that the arrest would cost N150,000. But eventually, after much pleading, he is reportedly said to have agreed to accept N120,000 paid (teller attached below) on November 4, 2019.

It is now eight months since the second payment but Sunshine rarely answers Osaze’s calls. And when he does, he calls Osaze’s bluff. The matter is said to have been reported at Sunshine’s office but his bosses seem uninterested.

What are your thoughts regarding this issue? If the police errs, who should we call upon to put them in their place?