Nigeria, April 7 -- The police in Enugu State have refuted reports that operatives arrested a legal practitioner, Frank Agbowo, over his allegations of extortion against police personnel in Nsukka, a local government area in the state.

Mr Agbowo, on Thursday, uploaded a video clip to his Facebook page in which he claimed some police operatives posted to the Nsukka Area of the state were extorting residents and motorists.

Giving an instance of the alleged extortion, he said he knew someone called Ikechukwu whom some operatives allegedly extorted N1 million from in the area at night.

Mr Agbowo claimed the operatives tortured and threatened to kill Ikechukwu if he failed to give them the money.

The lawyer appealed to the police authoriti...