A police officer, Cordelia Nwanwe, accused of extortion has been exonerated after an investigation into the matter.
Nwanwe along with some two other officers were accused by Morakinyo Peter and Yusuf Dayo on 14 July 2021 of extorting bitcoin worth N22million from them while driving on Ikoyi/Ajah Expressway in Lagos.
Investigations were launched into the allegations against the police officers.
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However, in a statement at the weekend, counsel of the complainants, Adegbola Odunyemi, said outcome of the investigations conducted revealed that Nwanwe had no direct involvement in the whole scenario and had since been exonerated.
The statement was in response to a report by an online platform that she was promoted despite being accused of extortion.
Odunyemi, who is the principal partner at the Tropicana Legal Consult said the petitions written on the alleged exhortion has been withdrawn long ago and matter resolved amicably.
The statement read, “We have the utmost responsibility to set the record straight as a minister in the temple of justice. The above subject matter was indeed reported to the force headquarters by our firm and has since been resolved.
“During the investigation, it was discovered that Madam Cordelia Nwanwe had no direct participation in the whole scenario leading to the arrest of our clients, and a letter of withdrawal was issued from our firm to the force headquarters.
“We urge the general public to disregard whatever publication indicting the officers as we were not contacted by anybody to get the true picture of what transpired before such malicious report was posted.
“As counsel representing the parties involved in the matter, we should first be contacted to get the true position before such publication can be given the desired credit it deserves.
“Whoever has any personal vendettas with the concern officers should devise another means of getting back at them rather than leveraging on already concluded matter.”
The Force PRO, ACP Muyiwa Adejobi couldn’t not be reached as of the time of this report.
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