When next you are offering bribe to the Nigerian police, be careful!

The Police in Niger State paraded three suspects, Abdulmumini Ala, Bala Abdullahi and Samuel Marafa, from Agwara Local Government Area of the state, over allegation of  offering N1 million bribe to operatives of the State’s Anti-Robbery Squad {SARS}. Tribune newspaper reports that they were paraded while N540,000 was also displayed by the police as part  payment  of the bribe.
 

According to the police, the bribe was offered by the suspects so as to remove from the police records some firearms recovered from their relatives who were earlier arrested by SARS over robbery allegations and possession of three AK-47 rifles.

Addressing newsmen, the Police Public Relations Officer {PPRO}, Niger State command, Mr Bala Elkana, said some three-man gang of suspected trans-border armed robbers and cattle rustlers who were relatives of the suspects offering the bribe had earlier been arrested  by the operatives of SARS and were charged to court.

"We have three persons in our custody who approached SARS and offered to give  a bribe of N1 million for the  police to remove  from  the records firearms recovered from their relatives who were earlier arrested by SARS  and charged to court," he said.