It was a moment of grisly and sobering revelations, when the Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Kazeem Alogba, on Tuesday, reviewed the case files of 42 juveniles who had been remanded in the Borstal
Training Institution, Adigbe, Abeokuta, Ogun State. The exercise, which took place in the foyer of the Lagos State Magistrates’ Court in Ogba, was, in part, an exhibition of what can only be described as sheer wickedness by some men of the Nigeria Police Force.
“The police, the courts, the prosecutors, this does not speak well of us. And if these people are not well catered for, they will come out to become people who hate society because these places are not five-star hotels. If you allow them to go there, they get better trained to become criminals and one day, they will be released, then, we will all face it.
He said, “It is not the number of people who are caught that will tell that we have done our work well. If anybody who did these thought that he was doing his work and it is a measure of success, I think that person is not fit to be in the police force. A good police force with good men will do their investigation. But you just put these boys in detention and you were transferring them from one place to another.
“And as I have always said, don’t be timid in doing your job. Somebody is brought before you and there is no prima facie case and the prosecution is not making any progress, please strike out the case! Let them write petitions. I am solidly behind you.”On being questioned, the mother of one of the boys revealed that she left him with her grandmother when she remarried. She drew the ire of the Chief Judge.
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