Nigeria, March 17 -- The police in Anambra State have arrested and detained six officers who allegedly tortured and extorted N200,000 from a trader in Onitsha, the commercial hub of the South-eastern state.

Tochukwu Ikenga, the police spokesperson in the state, disclosed this in a statement on Monday.

The arrest and detention of the six operatives followed a video clip circulating on Facebook in which a woman narrated how some officers tortured and extorted N200,000 from her husband, a trader.

In the now viral video clip, the woman, who did not identify herself, said her unnamed husband was flagged down by some armed police officers under a flyover bridge while he was transporting some cartons of malt in his white bus after purchasing ...