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This is for objective people.

The law has already made provisions for public interest and facts (like a journalist that writes a report about a corrupt politician). See below.

And, of course, any arrest warrant would have to be issued by a judge.

It looks like he is still wasting his time and trying to engage me.

I won't read it.

CorrectionFLuid:
The police will still have to go to court even if the armed robber is caught red handed. They just have evidence to keep the armed robber, and more evidence to get a quick sentence.
The police is not the judge jury and executioner. And there is nothing on nairaland to be embarrass about. The site is already an embarrassment.

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Did the police tell you that the man won't be charged to court??

They just have evidence to keep the armed robber

The police just has evidence to keep the journalist.


But, once again, you tried to run away from the question and I'm not going to let you escape.

My question was, can the police get involved. Your very answer shows that the police will get involved.

The very fact that you are attempting to dribble from what you know to be true shows that you are not worth my time.

I only engage people who are being sincere.

Goodbye, I have proved my point and I will not read your responses because it is obvious to me that you are not being serious.

CorrectionFLuid:
We do not know if the man was actually invited before. What we have is the word of the police which can be false. We also do not know if what the man wrote in his article is true. What we have is his article. The article talked about several people who can actually corroborate the story or refute it.

Talking with these people in the article should have come before whisking the man away with 10 armed police officers.

I was just waiting for you to do it again. You make allegations that you cannot back up, then you run away from them.

HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT THE POLICE HAVE NOT ALREADY SPOKEN TO OTHERS INVOLVED IN THE MATTER BEFORE INVITING THE MAN??

Provide proof that the police hasn't spoken to them.

Don't run away from this.

At this point it's just entertainment. He's obviously not serious.

CorrectionFLuid:
I accept that it is a criminal matter when the court determines it is. And then the police will have a role.

Obviously you don't know how the law works.

The law states whether it is a criminal matter or not. The law has already been made.

If armed robbers invade your house and kill your wife, you'd say that the police should not get involved until the court determines that it is a criminal matter?

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Don't embarrass yourself

CorrectionFLuid:
I didn't say any of these things, stop putting words I to my mouth. I said it is the duty of the court to determine the case. And I did not say the police didn't invite him.



This is what I said. How does that mean that I said that the police did not invite him?

Who said it's not the duty of the court to determine the case??

HAS THE POLICE DETERMINED THE CASE NOW??

Do you even know how the justice system works?

Whose job is it to investigate the matter? Answer that question first.

CorrectionFLuid:
What you're doing here is simply choosing what to believe and what not to. You already concluded that the man was lying. But then you choose to believe that the police actually invited him because they said so.

I am also sure you have chosen to not believe the man and his family when they were asking the 10 armed men why they are taking him away.

10 armed men to arrest an unarmed journalist on his home shows that there is already a bias. That it is more of a show of power.

You are doing the exact same thing you accuse Ishilove of doing.

1) You say that the police did not invite him. Do you have proof that the police did not invite him?

2) You say that the allegation in the article is true. Where is your proof?

In fact, all through this thread it looks like you have just been making things up as you go along.

By the way, correctionfluid, have you now accepted that it is a criminal matter and that the police have a role?

CorrectionFLuid:
So if a politician embezzles money, and a journalist exposes it, the politician will just use the police to bundle the journalist?

In the screen shot you posted, it clearly said that the publication has to be false. Who determines it to be false?

Using 10 armed policemen to kidnap a person already shows the police to be bias. Working for the highest bidder.

It is a clear show of power, otherwise they should go and kidnap Yahaya bello if they know they are in the right.

But then, you said your reply is a response to a particular thing I said, and your reply is duly noted.

You are still refusing (I don't know whether deliberately) to see where you have erred. Please actually read the law, then you'll understand.

Cool your emotions (because your examples have nothing to do with the facts at hand) and read this.


1) If a person publishes a defamatory material, then the victim can petition the police.

2) The police can invite the other party in the course of investigation.

3) If you are invited, you simply go with your lawyer. There have been many cases where people were invited, they went with their lawyer and they were released immediately. There have also been cases where the petitioner has been arrested by the police for providing false information.

4) It is the job of the police to investigate and see whether the case has enough substance to send to the DPP or charge to court. In the criminal justice system, the police investigates, the DPP or police prosecutes and the courts adjudicate.

5) Read the law, it provides a definition of defamation, provides exceptions, etc. Don't work based on emotions or assumption.

CorrectionFLuid

In Nigeria there is something called criminal defamation.

If someone petitions the police that he has been criminally defamed, then the police will investigate.

The police will invite the other party in the course of its investigation.

If the other party refuses to appear, then the police can assume that he is fleeing and can apply to a magistrate for a warrant of arrest.



This is a response to your claim that it is a civil matter and that the police have no business in it.

Criminal defamation.

Madu Onuorah Arrested Over Defamatory Publication Against Nun
https://www.nairaland.com/8102718/madu-onuorah-arrested-over-defamatory

Nigeria Police Force @PoliceNG

ABUJA-BASED ONLINE PUBLISHER ARRESTED OVER ALLEGATION OF DEFAMATORY PUBLICATION AND NOT ABDUCTED AS ALLEGED

...Enugu CP orders a professional investigation of the case and solicits patience from NUJ and others

The Enugu State Police Command is in receipt of several publications alleging the abduction of an Abuja-based online news publisher, one Madu Onuorah “m”. The Command wishes to state that contrary to the allegations, he was duly arrested in Abuja with the assistance of police operatives from Ebonyi State Command and the aid of intelligence, after efforts made to formally invite him failed.

Furthermore, his arrest was following the receipt of a written petition to the Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Command, against him over an alleged defamatory publication he made against a US-based Reverend Sister.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Kanayo Uzuegbu, psc (+), has ordered the office handling the case to professionally investigate and ensure that justice prevails. He calls on the press family, particularly the leadership and members of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Chapter of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), and associates of the suspect, to exercise patience, assuring that the needful will be done in the case.

DSP DANIEL NDUKWE, anipr, mnisma
Police Public Relations Officer,
Enugu State Command
State Headquarters,
GRA, Enugu.
May 23, 2024.

Previous thread: Police Arrest Madu Onuorah From His Abuja Home
https://www.nairaland.com/8102119/police-arrest-madu-onuorah-abuja

Sam Mewis interviewed Danielle van de Donk and (from the 27 minute mark) she talks about her time at Arsenal.

She said that the thing that made Arsenal ahead of the others was their scouting. She said that the club had the ability to find great players that nobody had heard about.

For example, she played with Asisat Oshoala and she always thought, "You are different. You are going to be great one day".


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GxMHsjtVrM?si=qEgFYp-WsJtOICA3