The Nigerian Police often parade suspects as
criminals. Is this constitutional?
Sadly to say, Nigeria is a country of
absurdities. A country where anything can
happen and things do in fact happen on a daily
basis. Parading of suspects by the Police
before the public prior to their being charged to
court, tried, found guilty and convicted is an
aberration. It is unconstitutional and makes
nonsense of the doctrine of the presumption of
innocence until found guilty enshrined in our
constitution. It amounts to gross violation of
the suspect’s fundamental human right to fair
hearing. By virtue of Section 36(5) & (6) CFRN
1999, an accused person is presumed innocent
until the contrary is proved. Nowhere in our
statutes can a provision be found empowering
the police or any other law enforcement agency
to first humiliate a suspect,thoroughly shame
and disgrace him before passing him over to a
law court for his trial.
The only instance where the police are allowed
by law to parade a suspect is where there is
need for the identification of the suspect by a
witness who claims to have seen the suspect
commit the alleged offence. In this case, the
suspect is lined up amidst other people while
the witness attempts to point him out from the
crowd. This is called identification parade and
it does not take place before the press.
Parading suspected criminals in the media is
already convicting the person in the court of
public opinion. There is no way you can ensure
that a person has a free and fair trial if you
have already given the public a bad impression
about the person. There is no doubt that the
single most important reason while the police
engage in this practice is for publicity to call
attention to itself and make the public believe
that it is actually fighting crime. But it is a poor
approach in winning back the confidence of the
public that has long lost faith in the ability of
the Nigerian police to protect it in the face of
the current, unprecedented upsurge in scale of
violent crimes across the land.
http://m.dailytimes.com.ng/article/19071/police-wrong-to-parade-suspects-before-trial/

Its very very wrong,but u know in this country its opposite and word not words and opposite..

The police of this country already is a disgrace.

Most of the "suspects" sef are actually innocent. Police go jus go arrest innocent people on the streets carry dem go station begin beat them make dem "confess".

After them go start to de parade them