tensor777:

I need not prove anything to you.However in Nigeria taking personal pictures of police personnel without their consent is a crime.

Maybe in this instance the guy thought that because he is in Nigeria he could act anyhow and even lacked the humility to acknowledge his offence.

this is where the police would knock the guy .i don't think i will like it if someone snap or use my photograph without my permission.

Omo those guyz re mess up.

logica:

See this hater more concerned about status. What was the awful act and what is his status you are talking about?

i expected you to be reasonable but you turned out to be a tout that you can't call a spade a spade. Do you actually want to know what his awful act was? it is very simply, take advantage of your father ontop of your mother (brushingout the hell out of her) with that you China canera phone. thereafter, paste the picture here on the NL post that the world will take a glance as if no one else partakes in such act. you panda never seize to amaze me.

look here young man, haven't your mama told you provocation could lead to anything? sometime in November 2006, I witnessed a police officer in uniform slapped his colleague while on duty in Lyon. wetin dey for SOKOTO, e dey for , inorderwords, for the perpetuator being knowledgeable of the law, his attitude was awful and he should face the book. morally, ignorant could be acceptable but legally ignorance is not an excuss.

i'm still not here to support the police but the truth must be told

If I was the one, I will knock the effin outta you; make no mistake and take personal photos of people without asking for permission, I mean it's commonsense and doesn't require law. Then again, they are police men who uphold the law and since the law does require freedom of speech; talk and act freely, I see nothing wrong with taking picture of them. If I decide to take pictures of those mean police guys when they fucking acting up, you bet I will, Talking about charging him for what? Those charges are erroneous, anyway they will dismiss the case period.

manny4life:

If I was the one, I will knock the effin outta you; make no mistake and take personal photos of people without asking for permission, I mean it's commonsense and doesn't require law. Then again, they are police men who uphold the law and since the law does require freedom of speech; talk and act freely, [b]I see nothing wrong with taking picture of them. If I decide to take pictures of those mean police guys when they bleeping acting up, you bet I will, Talking about charging him for what? Those charges are erroneous, anyway they will dismiss the case period.

[/b]GBAM

manny4life:

If I was the one, I will knock the effin outta you; make no mistake and take personal photos of people without asking for permission, I mean it's commonsense and doesn't require law. Then again, they are police men who uphold the law and since the law does require freedom of speech; talk and act freely, I see nothing wrong with taking picture of them. If I decide to take pictures of those mean police guys when they bleeping acting up, you bet I will, Talking about charging him for what? Those charges are erroneous, anyway they will dismiss the case period.

You sound confused there. If the charges are erroneous then on what basis was he charged? However there is nothing in the story to show that the police he snapped were not going about their lawful business.

ohaechesi:

i expected you to be reasonable but you turned out to be a tout that you can't call a spade a spade. Do you actually want to know what his awful act was? it is very simply, take advantage of your father ontop of your mother (brushingout the hell out of her) with that you China canera phone. thereafter, paste the picture here on the NL post that the world will take a glance as if no one else partakes in such act. you panda never seize to amaze me.

look here young man, haven't your mama told you provocation could lead to anything? sometime in November 2006, I witnessed a police officer in uniform slapped his colleague while on duty in Lyon. wetin dey for SOKOTO, e dey for ,  inorderwords, for the perpetuator being knowledgeable of the law, his attitude was awful and he should face the book. morally, ignorant could be acceptable but legally ignorance is not an excuss.

i'm still not here to support the police but the truth must be told

The fact that you speak of status shows you are an inferiority complex wracked slowpoke spawned by morons who YOU should be taking pictures of with YOUR China camera so that we can identify how many STDs are being transferred between them, and then identify the origin of that which infected you during childbirth, and responsible for your mental retardation. Fvcking cross between a Zynjanthropus and Australopithecus.

Oh, by the way, taking the pic of the imbeciles that gave that wretched life to you will only be appropriate, if they do like the imbeciles that they are and have intimacy in public.

logica:

The fact that you speak of status shows

See how you talk anyhow. Who cares about his status anyway and of what relevance is it to this matter?

So people dont know Ishit4body = Tumfulu?

Is it a crime or do we take permission to take pictures of public figures?

If the Policemen were in Mufti at home it might be wrong but they are public officers accountable to the public,

Do you need to take permission from hidden cameras and CCTV installed to take peoples picture in public

Yet another reason why nigeria is a failure

You cant cite privacy when you are a public official

Politicians/Policemen/Law Enforcement have ZERO privacy because we the taxpayers, pay their salaries.

This  case is particulary dangerous because the officers were armed and could have killed themsleves or someone, common sense should prevail in this matter but it WONT because Nigerian courts have nothing better to do but take bribes,hold innocent people in jail and let muderers and political thugs go scot free.

Cheers at 50 years of independence, bondage

Failures.

Simple, the law needs to change and we shouldn't be comparing taking pictures of a simple common person on the streets with that of the police.  If the law is changed and allow pics of the illegal checkpoints, taking N20 bribes etc, the police may change their ways

tensor777:

You sound confused there. If the charges are erroneous then on what basis was he charged? However there is nothing in the story to show that the police he snapped were not going about their lawful business.

The two-count charge brought against him bordered on assault and breach of peace by indiscriminately taking pictures at a public place.

The charge sheet read: “That you Onyekwere Michael Onyemaechi “m” on the 4/11/2010 at about 1800hrs at Acme Road junction, Ogba, Lagos, in the Ikeja Magisterial District did conduct yourself in a manner likely to cause breach of peace at Acme Road junction, being a public place, by using your blackberry mobile phone to take photographs of people indiscriminately, including that of two police officers namely Inspector Jerry Abuo and Cpl. Etim Itoro, for a ill motive and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 249(D) of the Criminal Code, Cap.17, Vol. 11 Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria 2003.”

The charges are erroneous, over exaggerative and should I continue further. Let me explain why they are in these context;

the charge sheet said "did conduct yourself in a manner likely to cause breach of peace", I mean they first statement did in fact say he did conduct himself in a manner (how?) Was he yelling? Was he angry? What manner it wasn't explained but indeed it was a manner "likely" so there was a huge possibility of it being that he did conduct himself peacefully without a cause to breach peace because that's what's it's inferring. Don't you see and error of wrong in there? Then it continued further to say that he took pictures "indiscriminately" at random so anyone could have argued that the police however where in the view of his pictures or anything, so by taking random pictures, he did in fact did not intend to cause breech of peace neither were his intentions focused on the police people because it was random. Then they alleged about ill motive, which is kinda flawed because from the incident, they never explained what the motive was let alone and ill motive. Don't you see an error of wrong there ?

Oh I forgot, they were alleging assault, on who and who? When he assaulted the unknown, he did intentionally seek to inflict pain, or harm, or even destroy property? The answer is NO, so where is their grounds? The so-called police did not have any standing at all, this is nothing but ballooned charges, police people seeking to make money. An assault charge depending on the severity of the case is usually misdemeanor.

safariman:

Simple, the law needs to change and we shouldn't be comparing taking pictures of a simple common person on the streets with that of the police.  If the law is changed and allow pics of the illegal checkpoints, taking N20 bribes etc, the police may change their ways

And why should the law change? However you are just talking anyhow as there is nothing in the story to indicate that the police men were doing anything illegal.

Taking pics wif police is one tin, snapping police on duty its other tin d dude is f**king wrong,its illegal nd Taking photographs of police and police staff is a criminal offence.he has lived in d UK for 7yrs he should kn better, ))

Mac_Flash:

Taking pics wif police is one tin, snapping police on duty its other tin d dude is f**king wrong,its illegal nd Taking photographs of police and police staff is a criminal offence.he has lived in d UK for 7yrs he should kn better, ))

Not if the police are breaking the law, the laws which they took an oath to uphold.

manny4life:

The two-count charge brought against him bordered on assault and breach of peace by indiscriminately taking pictures at a public place.

The charge sheet read: “That you Onyekwere Michael Onyemaechi “m” on the 4/11/2010 at about 1800hrs at Acme Road junction, Ogba, Lagos, in the Ikeja Magisterial District did conduct yourself in a manner likely to cause breach of peace at Acme Road junction, being a public place, by using your blackberry mobile phone to take photographs of people indiscriminately, including that of two police officers namely Inspector Jerry Abuo and Cpl. Etim Itoro, for a ill motive and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 249(D) of the Criminal Code, Cap.17, Vol. 11 Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria 2003.”

I don't know what your business is about this matter. It is for the prosecutor to to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he was indeed guilty of assault and breach of the peace and for the magistrate to determine the suspect's guilt or innocence based on the evidence laid before him and witness statements.
Be that as it may, I am sure that if he had been humble and apologized when challenged by the police the case would not have got to this stage.

Mac_Flash:

Taking pics wif police is one tin, snapping police on duty its other tin d dude is f**king wrong,its illegal nd Taking photographs of police and police staff is a criminal offence.he has lived in d UK for 7yrs he should kn better, ))

How is it wrong to take pictures of police?

Is taking pictures of OBJ and Goodluck too a criminal offence?

Do you have to take permission from Goodluck, Barack Obama or Gordon Brown to take picture of him when he is in public ?

When you are obviously not invading his privacy

This is what section 249d of Criminal Code says

d) every person who, in any public place, conducts himself in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace, shall be deemed idle and disorderly persons, and may be arrested without warrant, and shall be guilty of a simple offence, and shall be liable to imprisonment for one month.

I just need to ask if The times that planted camera for amos adamu has committed crime or not?

So how did his behaviour violate the law?

every person who, in any public place, conducts himself in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace, shall be deemed idle and disorderly person

klas:

This is what section 249d of Criminal Code says

d) every person who, in any public place, conducts himself in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace, shall be deemed idle and disorderly persons, and may be arrested without warrant, and shall be guilty of a simple offence, and shall be liable to imprisonment for one month.

No argument, but that same code did not in fact explain in what "manner" they talk about; either expressed nor implied. They did not even go further to explain what "Breach of Peace" is. That should be what any law would explain in this context and then know if such manner does in fact conform with the breach of peace before going further. Anyone on the streets of lagos shouting and yelling is obviously breaching the peace of others; both the manner which they are doing it (shouting and yelling while preaching), does conform with their act of breaching of peace

dayokanu:

So people dont know Ishit4body = Tumfulu?

hmm guessed as much. . . watever the tumfulu is,it  has the mouth stinkier dan dat of a forgotten sh[i]i[/i]thole   for lack of a berra description

We should ask the lawyers. Frankly I fail to see  the relationship between taking pictures (whether of police or not) and idleness + disorderliness

What have I been reading here? Taking pictures of the police is a crime?

Its not like he was instructing the police officers to strike a pose or telling the police officers to do topless shots.

This is just an abuse of judicial powers and evidence of lawlessness.

tensor777:

I don't know what your business is about this matter. It is for the prosecutor to to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he was indeed guilty of assault and breach of the peace and for the magistrate to determine the suspect's guilt or innocence based on the evidence laid before him and witness statements.
Be that as it may, I am sure that if he had been humble and apologized when challenged by the police the case would not have got to this stage.

my business is that u said i was confused, reference your comments below

tensor777:

You sound confused there. If the charges are erroneous then on what basis was he charged? However there is nothing in the story to show that the police he snapped were not going about their lawful business.

I have no business but merely stating that the police case is erroneous, they don't have a standing.

logica:

The fact that you speak of status shows you are an inferiority complex wracked slowpoke spawned by morons who YOU should be taking pictures of with YOUR China camera so that we can identify how many STDs are being transferred between them, and then identify the origin of that which infected you during childbirth, and responsible for your mental retardation. Fvcking cross between a Zynjanthropus and Australopithecus.

Oh, by the way, taking the pic of the imbeciles that gave that wretched life to you will only be appropriate, if they do like the imbeciles that they are and have intimacy in public.

Bravo, you have just proved the high level of imbecility, psychotic /malfunctional mentality that exist amongst your "gene"or else you would have made a difference n'ulo nna gi (if actually u have one).  i think people should be properly informed of the wrath for law breakers rather then encouraging  indiscipline in the nation such as snapping unapproved picture to a force or an individual

@ Poster Please let us know the end of this matter in time, I'm very interested in it

This is what section 249d of Criminal Code says

d) every person who, in any public place, conducts himself in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace, shall be deemed idle and disorderly persons, and may be arrested without warrant, and shall be guilty of a simple offence, and shall be liable to imprisonment for one month.

This is not rocket science nah. . . its simple english dat shouldnt be so hard to comprehend

wen did taking random pictures become a breach of peace    'twas rude yes but turned into a court case, bullocks

This is just a pure waste of the court time . . he could have been reprimanded without all this legal bish bish

denzel2009:

What have I been reading here? Taking pictures of the police is a crime?
Its not like he was instructing the police officers to strike a pose or telling the police officers to do topless shots.
This is just an abuse of judicial powers and evidence of lawlessness.

There are cultural issues involved in taking photographs of persons without their consent in Nigeria. Just try that anywhere in Nigeria when next you're on holidays and see if you would not be not seriously dealt with.