Breaking Silence: Edo Resident Speaks Out On N500,000 Extortion By Police

An X user, identified as dottibumblebee, has accused some police officers from the Edo State Police Command of extorting him of N500,000…..CONTINUR READING

According to his posts on X on Tuesday, he was stopped and held hostage by the officers in Benin City, who accused him of being a cultist and threatened his life.

He said the policemen found money in his Binance wallet during a phone search.

Faced with threats, he claimed to have traded his USDT on the Binance app to pay them N500,000  using a PoS machine

He wrote, “Today I was stopped and held hostage by some police officers in Benin City, they accused me of being a cultist and threatened to take my life.

“They later searched my phone and found out I had some money on my Binance wallet

“I was literally threatened to death by these officers which led me to trade my Usdt on my Binance app, and pay them N500,000  using PoS

” I was supposed to use the money to start school this year. I’ve worked so hard for this money.