Thousands of Nigerians languish in jails for years and have never been formally charged with a crime. Many criticise the government for learning nothing from last year's ENDSARS protests against police brutality and widespread injustice.
‘’Having been totally caught off guard by the groundswell of outrage over high-profile incidents of police violence against ordinary Nigerians, federal government officials pivoted from their initial non-acknowledgement and dismissals of the protests to attempting to placate protesters with vague, non-specific statements about 'police reform' that carefully elided the unambiguous demands for justice and accountability,’’ Chris Ogunmodede, an associate editor at World Politics Review...
‘’The Nigerian criminal justice system was not designed to produce justice. The system is fashioned in a manner that oppresses and dehumanizes the poor,’’ the public interest lawyer said. ‘’The arrests should not have happened in the first place. The arrests [of random people after the protests] were malicious, baseless and a calculated attempt to persecute those who protested at the ENDSARS protests.
‘’Any person with even the most basic knowledge of the carceral system in Nigeria would tell you that the overwhelming majority of people detained across the country have never been formally charged with a crime, with many of them held for months and even years,’’ Ogunmodede said.into law to ‘’promote the efficient management of criminal institutions’’.
‘’I don’t have any money, the money my wife too has spent it on securing my release. I will not pray to come back to this kind of place again in my life. I have learned my lesson, anywhere there is a riot, I will not pass through there,’’ he said, his voice hollow with regret. Ogunmodede sees the conditions as legacies of colonialism that produced the framework for modern police and prison institutions in Nigeria.
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