The owner was said to have violated the sit-at-home order before his car was impounded.

Inspector Martin, the spokesman of the Lagos Police Command, DSP Bala Elkana, said, was arrested following a video in the social media showing him as having been caught in the act.

The money was said to have been recovered from him and handed to the owner.

Also, the Inspector was said to have been handed over to Provost Marshall for Orderly Room Trials.

The statement announcing his arrest reads:

“Attention of Lagos State Police Command is drawn to a video on social media in which an Inspector was captured counting #40,000 he extorted from the owner of a vehicle he impounded for violating restriction of movement order.

“After analysing the video, the culprit was identified and arrested. He is Inspector Taloju Martin attached to Ago Police Station as Station Officer (SO). The complainant has also been identified. The money extorted is recovered and handed over to him by the Commissioner of Police.

“The Commissioner of Police Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu psc has ordered the Deputy Commissioner  of Police in Charge of Criminal Investigation to carry out an in depth investigation into the activities of Ago Police Station as a whole. Meanwhile, the Inspector arrested is handed over to Provost Marshall for Orderly Room Trials. Commissioner of Police has reaffirmed his stance against corrupt practices and impunity. Members of the public will be updated on the outcome of the investigation.”

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The call is contained in a letter written by the group and directed to President Muhammadu Buhari.

The open letter dated November 2, 2018 is signed by SERAP’s senior legal adviser, Ms Bamisope Adeyanju.

The probe, SERAP, reasoned, would enable the prosecution of Ganduje after leaving office.

As a governor, he currently enjoys immunity.

SERAP’s letter reads in part:  “Given the history of corruption in Nigeria, especially unresolved allegations of grand corruption against many state governors, your government cannot and should not look the other way regarding the allegations against Mr Ganduje.

“Any allegations of bribery and abuse of power in any state of Nigeria is of concern to every Nigerian, and should therefore, be of concern to your government.

“The obligations of your government to combat corruption in Nigeria extend to all the three tiers of government, namely, the federal government, state government and local government.

“Although primarily a matter of concern for Kano State, the allegations of bribery against Mr Ganduje have assumed such a proportion as to become a matter of concern to the federation as a whole, and therefore, to your government.”

Stating that the step would be in line with the government’s fight against corruption, SERAP said the president should “direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami, SAN, and/or appropriate anti-corruption agencies to without delay investigate allegations of bribery against Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, as contained in the widely circulated video clips allegedly showing Mr Ganduje receiving bribe.”

Ganduje is currently facing allegation of corruption bordering on receipt of bribe from contractors.

An online newspaper, Daily Nigerian, published a video of the governor allegedly receiving bribe from a contractor.

The governor has since denied the allegation, saying the video must have been doctored.

The Kano State House of Assembly has set up a committee to probe the case and it is ongoing.

Jaafar Jaafar, publisher of the Daily Nigerian has appeared before the committee and insisted that the video was genuine.

He also offered to make available, the unedited version of the video.

The committee has summoned the governor too, but he refused to appear, sending two of his commissioners to represent him.

He claimed he was attending to a pressing issue at the State House at the time.

He, however, in a statement he submitted to the committee, insisted that there was no truth in the bribery claim against him.

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He is to appear on Friday.

The invitation to the governor was signed by Baffa Danagundi, chairman of the committee set up by the legislative house to probe the case.

He was, apart from appearing, required to write a statement and possibly come with his lawyer.

An online news medium, Daily Nigerian, published a video said to be showing the governor while receiving bribe from some contractors.

Although the governor has since denied collecting bribe and vowed to sue the newspaper, the House of Assembly, which said it had the jurisdiction to probe the case prevailed on him not to go to court as it set up a committee to probe the matter.

Already, the publisher of the newspaper, Jaafar Jaafar,  had appeared before the committee upon invitation, insisting that the video was genuine.

Jafaar said it was ready to provide the unedited tape to the committee to assist in the probe.

He explained how a contractor revealed the crime and a spy camera was eventually planted on him for the video recording.

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The video was said to be showing him collecting bribe from suspected contractors.

But in a statement issued by the Commissioner for Information, Muhammad Garba, the governor said the claims were untrue.

He also described the video as cloned.

 “We wish to state that there is no iota of truth to these allegations and if there is any such alleged video, it is at best cloned.

“The government of Kano State is taking this matter seriously and will exploit every appropriate and legal avenue to ensure that it gets to the root of the matter and the perpetrators brought to book,” the commissioner said.

But in a statement by the publisher of Daily Nigerian, Jaafar Jaafar, a spy camera was planted on a contractor to achieve the video.

Jaafar Jaafar has since gone underground following alleged threat to his life.

His words:  “During a 10-month effort to capture the bribe giving/taking scenes, the governor’s face and body were clearly captured in nine clips, while six others did not clearly reveal the governor’s face.

 “About $5 million dollars were delivered to the governor during the sting operation. One of the contractors, who preferred not to be named, said the reason he collaborated with Daily Nigerian was to expose corruption and bring sanity to the country.

 “The contractor stated that if his aim was to blackmail or extort the governor, he would have used the videos to get over a billion settlement or force the governor to pay the hundreds of millions of naira the state was owing to his company or force him to pay back all the money he paid as kickbacks.

“We believe if public office holders are exposed, there will be sanity in the system.”

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