The whole legal/judicial system in Nigeria are corrupt and prone to lying, but are police officers necessarily more trustworthy than alleged criminals? I think not. Not just because the police have a special inclination toward confabulation, but because, disturbingly, they have an incentive to lie. In this era of mass incarceration, the police shouldn’t be trusted any more than any other witness, perhaps less so.

I discussed this issue at length with a police officer friend who happens to disclose to me that lawyers are their mentor in terms of telling lies but, i disagree with him based on my several encounter with policemen. I later pondered about it if truly he said the trut to me or was just trying to cover up his profession.

What are your views?

In most cases, what people perceive as lies by lawyers are no lies bbut part of the professional ethics.