Question 4: Besides the remote Court system, what other tech solutions would you like to see introduced to the justice delivery process in Nigeria? @GMabeiam@InnojusticeWA@ChidiOdinkalu
With this pandemic a new norm is created- what tech with justice changes would you like to keep seeing post covid19 ? @ChidiOdinkalu@GMabeiam@InnojusticeWA
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Our attention has been drawn to Section 38 of the Police Reform Act which may empower a police officer to arrest without a warrant or court order based on reasonable grounds of suspicion.
We would be answering the following questions to enable us clarify this section:
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1. What is the position of the Constitution on arrest based on reasonable suspicion?
2. What is reasonable suspicion?
3. Arrest without a warrant or court order based on reasonable suspicion; a shield or a sword?
1. The Nigerian Constitution allows for arrest on reasonable suspicion as an exception to right to personal liberty - Section 35(1)(c) provides thus: "upon reasonable suspicion of having committed a criminal offense...
Meet James Jack (Pseudo), a 22 year old who was remanded in a Correctional Facility by an Area Court because he could not raise the compensation sum ordered by the court. Trouble started when a neighbour pleaded that he helps her keep some items in his house.
Reluctantly, James received the items from the neighbour having been evicted by her landlord. Few weeks after, James went out of town to work. Before he came back, his room had been burgled and properties carted away, including those of his neighbour.
James' neighbor reported at the Police station.He was invited to the Station after his younger brother had been arrested in lieu of him.He submitted himself and was detained for 4 days before being charged to an Area Court for the offenses of Criminal Breach of Trust & Stealing.
A recent culture that filled the social media space during the global lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic was the 'dragging' of people for various reasons. For each passing day, someone has been dragged on social media, especially on Twitter.
Celebrities, Commander-in-Chief of countries have been dragged, apparently, no one was exempted from being dragged. All you needed do was present yourself for dragging.
One of such draggings was that of a cake baker. A baker called out another baker and asked the later to stop imitating her cakes! At first, it sounded like a joke, because that would not be the first time cakes have been imitated.
Mama Tunde is owing her landlord N80,000 for 6 months rent and he has finally made true of his threats to get her arrested by the Police. At least, that's how he deals with Tenants that refuse to pay rents on time.
Does the duty of the Police involve settlement of civil dispute?
It has become a norm for people to engage the services of law enforcement agencies to recover debt or enforce a civil agreement, clearly majority are not aware that owing debt is not a crime and cannot be referred to as one.
When a person engages police officers in a civil matter, both the Police officers involved and the person that invited the officers can actually be sued for breach of fundamental human rights.
While disobedience of court orders continues to be the order of the day for the Nigerian Government- It is important to know that one of the causes of the explosions at the port of Beirut is “DISOBEDIENCE OF COURT ORDER”.
The question now is: Will the utter negligence and disobedience of court orders come back to haunt us in Nigeria?
The order for the unconditional release of the Shiites leader, Shiekh Zakzaky was made by the Court in 2016- This continues to be disregarded by the Nigerian Government causing unrest, extrajudicial killings, and destruction of properties in Abuja.
Yesterday 5th of August 2020, our quick response team intervened in a case of sexual assault that happened in a commercial taxi in Ibadan.
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According to the complainant, she was lapping her 12 yr. old daughter in a commercial taxi when the man sitting beside them was alleged by the daughter to have groped her breasts repeatedly to the point of ejaculation.
The matter was then taken to the nearest police station and when the girl's father heard, he rushed down to the police station and threw punches at the accused, when a non-uniformed police officer tried to hold him down, the father punched him too.