After watching the video, I asked myself if the PoliceNG can be so caring as to drive in a convoy of patrol vehicles to a citizen’s house just to make a boy happy on his birthday on the invitation of his dad? I doubt it...
Barely 10 minutes later, a team of policemen in seven patrol cars streamed to a halt in two rows right in front of the house, blaring sirens to herald their arrival.
The police force ranks high in the index of corrupt public agencies in Nigeria. An average Nigerian does not like policemen. Mobs tend to prefer jungle justice to handing over criminals caught red-handed or suspects to the police because, in uncountable number of such cases, apprehended criminals would not only regain their freedom shortly afterward but would come back to terrorize their captors thereby endangering the lives of people in the concerned community.
Also, they are the ones being used to pervert the course of justice, provide cover for criminal elements, carry out dastardly operations in the interest of the state without recourse to the rule of law and natural justice. It is easy to lampoon police operatives for their official misconduct but we fail to interrogate the source of their problems. It is no secret that the Nigeria police is among the best trained and about the most efficient in Africa.
While there’s no excuse to justify wickedness or inhuman treatments of the people by the police, the unfair treatment and neglect that police men and women themselves suffer in the system are equally serious issues for concern. However, the situation has gradually improved since the current Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, got into office. He has so far tried to re-enact orderliness, sense of fairness and professionalism in the force.
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