Two traffic police women, Corporals Elizabeth Itolor and Jennifer Azingbe, who were videotaped collecting N100 bribe from a bus driver in Lagos, have been dismissed from the Nigeria Police Force. Itolor and Azingbe, attached to the Makinde Police Division, were said to have received their dismissal letters on Wednesday. Both women were said to have spent nine years in the police as they were recruited in 2004.
The corporals’ dismissal is contained in a circular which stated that the policewomen were dismissed over “despicable acts and corrupt practices contrary to Paragraph E(iii) and C(iii) respectively of Schedule 1 of the Police Act and Regulations 370 of the Federation of Nigeria 1990.”
A video footage on Youtube posted by one Afro Finlandia a few weeks back, showed one of the policewomen negotiating a N100 bribe with a commercial bus driver at the Oshodi/Apapa Expressway. The video generated public outrage on social media, led to the arrest of the women.
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