Jonathan Nwokpor
One of the victims, Kingsley Ebuka, reported that security personnel were putting up roadblocks on the Onitsha-Owerri road and allegedly harassing and extorting passengers.
He claimed that the policemen were telling the passengers to transfer up to N350,000 to a POS account or risk being arrested and turned over to the anti-robbery squad.
Ebuka claimed he had to move the N150,000 that was left in his bank account to the designated account because he was afraid he would be shot, arrested, or accused of being a member of IPOB or a criminal.
He added that because they had not sent a reasonable amount into the POS account, some other passengers were already being held inside the White Hiace bus they were riding in, and they were being threatened with being moved to SARS or SPACS.
As reported by The Punch News, the victim, Ebuka, said, “On alighting from the tricycle, in obedience to the order, the policemen ordered us to surrender our GSM phones to them for searching. 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 the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, or the Special Anti-Cults Squad, SPACS, for prosecution as common criminals.”
He continued, “Out of fear of being whisked off and probably shot dead along the road and tagged a criminal or an IPOB member, I transferred the sum of N150,000 remaining in my bank account into the designated POS account given to us by the policemen before they handed my phone back to me and went after other passengers.
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