ONITSHA—Tricycle passengers in Anambra State, have called on the state police command to caution its men against incessant harassment, humiliation and extortion of passengers on major roads in the state.
He said on alighting from the tricycle, in obedience to the order, the policemen ordered them to surrender their GSM phones to them for searching, adding that on surrendering the handsets to them, the policemen ordered each of the passengers to transfer as much as N350,000 to a certain POS account or be arrested and handed over to either Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS or Special Anti Cults Squad, SPACS, for prosecution as common criminals.
He said the policemen had already detained some other passengers inside the white bus they were operating with and were threatening to move them to SARS or SPACS for allegedly failing to transfer a reasonable amount of money to the designated POS account.