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Police Wrong To Parade Suspects Before Trial by jiggalo(m): 7:37am On Feb 03, 2015 |
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/ |
Re: Police Wrong To Parade Suspects Before Trial by TeamSimple(m): 7:45am On Feb 03, 2015 |
Its very very wrong,but u know in this country its opposite and word not words and opposite.. 1 Like |
Re: Police Wrong To Parade Suspects Before Trial by simplemach(m): 7:48am On Feb 03, 2015 |
The police of this country already is a disgrace. 1 Like |
Re: Police Wrong To Parade Suspects Before Trial by watchthisposter(m): 8:13am On Feb 03, 2015 |
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 |
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