Nigeria, June 4 -- Some officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Cross River State allegedly extorted N100,000 from a driver for not wearing a seatbelt, a Nigerian journalist, Agba Jalingo, alleged.

Mr Jalingo, the publisher of Cross River Watch, made the allegation in a Facebook post on Tuesday.

"This Road Safety team also arrested a vehicle yesterday in Calabar and extorted N100k from the driver for not wearing a seat belt.

."The money was extorted through the private account of one Zeal Nkere Richard before the vehicle was released. That's the vehicle they used," he wrote, with a picture of the Road Safety patrol vehicle and an Opay payment receipt as evidence.

The receipt showed that the payment was executed on Tuesday...