The officer, who was stationed in Ibadan, Oyo state, refused to accept a bribe of N500,000 from a politican to help influence results during the 2011 gubernatorial election in Oyo State
While confirming the report, NSCDC’s Head of Public Relations, Emmanuel Okeh said “there was an allegation of bribery where the officials working in that particular polling booth were to be given money to allow electoral fraudsters to perpetuate their evils. Se was offered the sum of N500,000 but she rejected it”.
Mr. Okeh added that because she rejected the money “she was attacked, beaten, had her handset stolen and hospitalized. They believed that because she
rejected the money, she could expose them”.
Soon after the elections, news of officer Akande’s heroic action spread like a wild fire and organizations took turns to reward her patriotic act.
The Corps’ Head of Public Relations said she was rewarded with a new blackberry mobile phone by a telecom service provider after they heard her story.
“The Corps honoured her, the Sun Newspaper honoured her, the State government and others also honoured her”, Mr. Okeh revealed.
He pointed out that the combined sum of all the money given to her stands at about N8 million.
Mr. Okeh called on other Nigerians to always do right as there are gains for being patriotic.
He noted that the story of officer Akande shows that there are bigger benefits for shunning corrupt practices.
“There is nothing as good as having a good name…”, Mr. Okeh maintained.
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