From the viewpoint of a South-Easterner, the region, #Nigeria's tiniest by landmass, has been feeling under the pressure of excessive policing for years.
In December 2018, the International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law published a report that claimed that in the three years prior, the police extorted ₦100 billion in roadside bribery and extortion.
In the absence of any counter research, let us look at these figures.
Let us for the sake of argument, assume that each of these incidents of bribery and extortion was done in ₦1,000 notes.
Let us for the sake of argument, assume that each of these incidents of bribery and extortion was done in ₦1,000 notes.
This will mean that there were 100,000,000 separate incidents of extortion in three years (1,096 days) or put another way, there were 91,262 incidents of enforced money collection in the South-East each day.
Better still, 64 incidents of extortion every minute over the course of three years.
Is that not enough to alienate any population? bit.ly/3voXO8X
Is that not enough to alienate any population? bit.ly/3voXO8X
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