Following the exclusive report of ThePageNews, exposing the unhealthy activities of officers of the CTU Ekiti Unit of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), the leadership of the security agency have commenced investigation into the matter, even as all officers mentioned in the report have been summoned to the agency ‘s headquarters in Abuja.
The agency through a memo sighted by ThePageNews, dated 16 / 9/ 2025 and signed by the Commandant, SA Dandaura, ordered that the officers mentioned in connection with the extortion issue report to the headquarters immediately.
Recall that ThePageNews, in a report titled; Ekiti NSCDC Officers In N5m Extortion Mess, had narrated that about three months after the Minister of Interior, sanctioned the head of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) CTU unit, Ekiti State Command, and his team for extorting a motorist at gunpoint, a similar incident re- occurred.
On Monday evening, a team of officers under the command of Ekiti State Commandant, Mathew Toma, reportedly arrested one Sakiru Haminu Mide, a student of Federal Polytechnic, Ado, at gunpoint.
The officers, Akinola Ayoola, Falodun Temitope, Adeosun Abiodun Emmannuel, Solo and Stephen, all of whom have been ordered to Abuja, were alleged to have arrested a student of Ado Ekiti Polytechnic on the street after which they went with him to his house, ransacked it and later detained him while he was asked to provide N5m to secure his bail.
Following his refusal to part with the said amount, he was locked up aafter which the officers eventually forced him to part with N500, 000 to secure his freedom.
“They demanded for five million naira before I could be released, and because I was eager to leave the cell so that they won’t distrupt my school activities, and one of the officers whispered into my ears that, I would be indicted and implicated through my statement should they decide to take me to Court. I therefore agreed to pay them for 500k.
” They demanded for cash as they said, Commandant Toma ( leader of the team) doesn’t collect transfers, that he deals with cash from innocent victims . I told them I don’t have cash, they now brought a POS man, following which i transfered the sum of 500k, which they said would be collected by cash from the POS man for onward delivery to the Commandant” the Ado Poly student narrated.
There have been talks of recent, about the notoriety of the NSCDC officers, especially in Ekiti.
Close watchers of the agency’s activities in the state have registered the NSCDC, an institution originally tasked with defending the vulnerable, has allegedly become a tool for harassment and extortion under Commandant Toma’s leadership.
