Lagos Police Officers Return ₦2.2m to Couple, Say Remaining ₦1.1m Had Been Shared*

 

 *Policemen attached to the Area H Police Command in Ogudu, Lagos State, have extorted $2,000 (N3,330,000) from a couple they wrongfully arrested on December 18, 2025.* 

According to the report by FIJ, read that the police men involved return part of the looted fund of N2.2 million after getting exposed on X, but are begging to keep N1 million and return only N100,000 more because many policemen have split the money.

Narrating the incident to Journalist, Abiodun Alabi (not real name), a friend of the couple, said, “Sometime before 6am on December 18, 2025, the couple was travelling out of Lagos when the police stopped them.

“They profiled the man and threatened him, then they seized his phones before taking man and wife to Ogudu Police Station.

“There, they made the woman sit outside while they took the man inside to write an incriminating statement without his lawyer present. When it was over, the police demanded $5,000 USDT.

“What followed was an argument over how much should exchange hands. At the end of the day, the innocent man agreed under duress to pay $2,000 USDT. The police provided a wallet address, collected the sum and then deleted every trace of the transaction.

“We got a copy of it because the man did not transfer from his own wallet but had another friend transfer the money from his wallet.”

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Transfer receipt

Alabi wrote to the Police Complaints Response Unit (CRU) on the day of the incident, and they sent the phone number of Olumide Jegede, the SO to the Area H Command.

The Journalists team, called Jegede on December 19, 2025, and the policeman invited him to the station for a resolution since the couple had continued their journey after the incident.

On December 23, 2025, Alabi and the couple visited the station and identified the policemen who robbed them.

Olumide Jegede’s office

“Jegede was eating when we arrived. From the gate, the couple began identifying the people who picked them up,” Alabi told FIJ. “We saw the leader and about three other people. Jegede knew them.

“When he finished eating, he looked at me and asked why I was not smiling. He said, ‘This one that you’re coming to me with a straight face, you’re aggressive. It is like you don’t want this matter to be resolved.’

“We soon went into the matter and narrated the entire happening to him. The woman was pregnant and explained how traumatising the experience was for her.

“The leader of the team that robbed them began saying he helped the couple. He said he called the couple aside that day and asked the man, ‘This money that you gave us, is it from your mind? If you had told us it was not from your mind, we would have left you’.

“After attempting to manipulate us, they then threatened to call cybercrimes unit to investigate the man for fraud.”

Alabi explained that the victims explained that they were innocent and insisted on their refund.

Jegede then told them that the money had changed hands and many policemen had shared in the loot, so they could only return N2.3 million, but could only pay N2 million that day and N300,000 some other day.

N2 million refund from police

On Wednesday, the police sent N200,000 and called to say the team leader was ill and they would send N100,000 when he recovered.

Journalist called Police head in area H, Mr. Jegede on Saturday. He said he could not comment on the matter at press time, but that this reporter could visit his office on Monday to follow it up.