The Commandant of the Nigerian Peace Corps, Dickson Akoh has called on the National Assembly to amend the extant laws of Nigeria's security agencies so that the police can be prevented from harassing innocent citizens unnecessarily.

Akoh was recently arrested by the police without reason.

“The National Assembly should come up with a bill to amend, if there is any existing law, that permits security agencies to pick innocent people, parade them, lie against them, and at the end, they would not have anything tangible against them," he said shortly after his release from police custody.

“It happened to us before in 2011, at the end, there was no charge before courts of law. The court discharged us from Gudu High Court, and held that, it was wrong for them to detain us for a long time and be asking for a withholding charge for a matter that is not a capital offence.

“What they are doing now is to prove to the whole world that they are working. Rushing into parading people unjustly is very sad. What are the evidences tendered against us? They only tendered my uniform, my official portrait that I have been using in the same office that some of them had come to visit and our flag. How does that constitute anything criminal?”, Akoh queried.

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Interesting.

Police harassing or locking up innocent people,is not synonymous to Nigeria only,although that does not make it right.

Truth is,even in very developed Countries,where there are laws against such acts. It is still very common to see the Police use profiling methods to harass the innocent.

So even if the law is passed on paper,still don't meant anything to the Police.

That is unethical behaviour on the part of NPF in general.

For d ist time, I support d Police
Hw can dis man ask people to pay 60k for peace corp, just imagine what dat amount will do in dis recession

police is too soft


I wish it was DSS who abducted him

he will shutup that his dirty month


in a very sane country constitution
breakers and ppl who are involved in money laundering of poor citizen are left to rot in jail for life

Why the hatred for this peace corps. It is like Nigerians that are not peace lovers are afraid of them already. For the police, they are just been jealous that another paramilitary organization is coming to reduce their powers. they did it before with Road Safety, Civil Defence and now with Peace Corps. Shame on them