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On the 27th of June, 1987 in accordance with its article 27(1) the UN Convention against Torture and Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment came to force to compel each state party to take effective legislative, administrative, judicial and
On the 27th of June, 1987 in accordance with its article 27(1) the UN Convention against Torture and Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment came to force to compel each state party to take effective legislative, administrative, judicial and
other measures to prevent acts of torture from being committed within its territory. This was expressly stated in Article 2(2) of the UN Convention.
There is a case of one Kayode Badmus who became partially blind as a result of the conditions under which he was held at
There is a case of one Kayode Badmus who became partially blind as a result of the conditions under which he was held at
the Panic Police Station, Yaba, Lagos State.
Similarly, there was a reported case of one Taiwo Omosowon who disclosed that as part of the torture meted on him, the Nigerian Police ran thin metal wires through his urinary tract, and advanced his torturing treatment
Similarly, there was a reported case of one Taiwo Omosowon who disclosed that as part of the torture meted on him, the Nigerian Police ran thin metal wires through his urinary tract, and advanced his torturing treatment
by hanging him face down, with ropes suspended from the roof of a special torture-chamber, lashing his back and buttocks with metal wires until blood dripped from his nostrils.
In Nigeria, @PoliceNG investigations thrive mostly on clues, vicious attack, blind accusation, TRIAL and ERROR. It involves the questioning of persons so arrested in consequence of a crime so as to expose the person most likely to have committed the alleged offence?
Within the prism of the law, the possible best, easiest and most convenient way to establish the author of a crime, so called, is to get the suspect to confess. This is an option that the police has inexorably abused and adopted.
It is pertinent to posit that in the Nigerian Police, no safeguard is too sacrosanct as to be obeyed in pursuit odd a confessional statement.
To this end, THE NIGERIAN POLICE CANNOT DO WITHOUT TORTURE. It is a routine:
To this end, THE NIGERIAN POLICE CANNOT DO WITHOUT TORTURE. It is a routine:
officers embrace and practice torturing wholeheartedly for the exclusive purpose of getting confessional statement from a suspect.
My point is that there was no nexus between @bukolasaraki and the Offa Robbers, but the @PoliceNG in their usual character, fought hard to rope him into the narrative. The Nigeria police is in the habit of torturing suspects to make incriminating confessional statements.
