The Lagos State Task Force has suspended a paramilitary officer attached to the agency for allegedly collecting N30,000 bribe from an arrested traffic offender in Ikorodu area of the state.
Chairman, Lagos State Task Force, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi, said the suspension became necessary following complaints against the officer in the social media and subsequent investigation by the agency on the accused staff.
Egbeyemi said investigation so far has
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According to Egbeyemi, the action of the officer was disgraceful and did not justify the training, motivation as well as huge investment by the government to engender excellent performance of staff during the agency’s operations.
“The government recently trained all paramilitary officers attached to the agency on ‘Career Evaluation’ where they were taught how to be professionals and civil in dealing with the members of the public”, Egbeyemi said.
He reiterated that the agency would not tolerate indolence and indiscipline in any form, adding that any officer whose behaviour would tarnish the image of the agency would be shown the way out.
CSP Egbeyemi also confirmed that a senior police officer who led the team that impounded the vehicle had been redeployed to another unit of the agency for inadequate supervision of his subordinates.
“Members of the public should not hesitate to report to the agency any officer found misbehaving in the course of discharging his/her official duties for appropriate sanction and discipline”, he said.
The indicted paramilitary officer, popularly called ‘Iku’ has confessed to collecting the N30,000 before the release of the impounded vehicle to the owner, promising to be of good character, henceforth, if pardoned.
