KNOW YOUR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS.
Freedom From Beating, Long Detention, Threats, Harassments Etc.

It is wrong, unlawful and unconstitutional for the Police to torture their suspects under any guise and for any reason whatsoever. This is not only so under Nigerian laws, but also under African and United Nations Charters on Human Rights. So, this is recognized worldwide.
Nigerian policemen are fond of torturing their suspects in order to force them to “confess”. Some of the torture methods used include the following:

i. Flogging & Beating – This is the most commonly used means of torturing a suspect, whereby the suspect is subjected to serious flogging with cane, cables, horsewhip, rod, planks, etc, or dealt physical blows and kicks.

ii. “Hanging” – It is the method by which a suspect is tied to the ceiling fans, or the ceiling fan hook and left there. Atimes, the ceiling fan is switched on in order to rotate and thereby make the suspect dizzy. Atimes too, the suspect is tied hands back and suspended with a pole between two drums.

iii. Using Wooden Pallets Stuffed With Nails – Here, the Police deliberately place wooden pallets with protruding nails on the floor of a dark and enclosed cell. They then engage in flogging the suspect so that in the process of the struggle, the suspect steps on the nails.

iv. Using Electrical Shock – This is a method where the suspect is flogged with a live and exposed cable thereby triggering electric shocks therefrom. The suspect may also have exposed electric wires strapped around him which are then connected to electric sockets intermittently, generating electric shocks on the suspect.

v. Shooting On The Leg – This is common with officers of the various Special Anti-Robbery Squads (SARS). Here the suspect is deliberately shot on the leg or ankle, to extort confessional statements from him. It is common in the court rooms to see suspected armed robbers with bullet wounds on their legs. Investigations revealed that most of those bullet wounds were inflicted in the course of interrogation, to extract confessional statements from the suspects. But the Police would rather claim that the bullet wounds were sustained during exchange of gunfire before the suspects were arrested. Under the law, such manner of interrogation is unlawful.

vi. Inserting Sharp Objects Into The Private Part – Some officers also engage in inserting sharp objects like broomstick, nails etc, into the private part of the suspect to make him confess. The pains from this can be better imagined.

vii. Detention With Hardened/Condemned Criminals – Another means of torture is where the officer deliberately detains a suspect in the same cell with hardened or condemned criminals, who then subject the suspect to serious beating, torture and agonies, on the instructions or instigation by the police officer. This is torture by proxy..

Will these so called police and SARS let you have your way with this human right you just talked about, you even get into more trouble when you claim to know your right ...Nigeria is a dead country ....