THE POLICE : A NATIONAL WOE

3 Responses to “THE POLICE : A NATIONAL WOE”

1. Laniran Tope says:

   February 15, 2012 at 07:10

   Exactly its pathetic. The other day I was arrested for sitting on a public seat by a policeman because I asked him who made the law and he said the Governor and I asked him if its in the jurisdiction of the Governor. He got annoyed and arrested me for sitting on a public seat. All I could do was just to shake my head not for the policeman but for his lack of understanding his job, when to arrest and what to arrest for, and most of all those who employed him. If I were to be the Son of a nobody that would have been a disaster cos I actually followed him to the station and was ready to make an issue out of the whole case. But the most saddening issue is the way they lie. Infact its a shame to have uniformed Liars as security. By the time we got to his boss the story changed to “he was transacting”. Now wat I asked was what was I transacting, who did I transact with fterall I can’t transact with myself cos d word transactn implies more than 1 person and is it even a crime to transact in a public place since the word market can be anywhere. U won’t bliv I had to call my fada oda wise I wld av ended up behind bars dt blessed day. NIGERIAN POLICE I¤SMH¤
2. Rotimi Olarewaju says:

   February 16, 2012 at 19:52

   Put a dog in a pack of wolves and what do you get?

   The conditions under which our police men and women serve are pathetic to say the least.

   The police stations can criminalize anyone who visits them regularly (let alone those who are made to work there). Every single one I have had the displeasure of entering for one reason or the other STINKS to high heavens.

   Jail cells are overcrowded and most times, suspects (who are mostly unfortunate citizens caught in the middle of one fracas or the other and without a means to make bail) are made to sit, eat and defecate on the floors of corridors of the stations. Little wonder no sane person chooses the police station as a dispute resolution ground except in cases of severe frustration.

   The current administration should try and clean up the police stations (rather than spuriously fund the office of the NSA) as that is likely to give raise to a sane police population. I’m sure this will be a minimal expenditure relative to some inexplicable figures we have noted in the 2012 budget so far.

   Primarily, the police force should engage the services of a cleaning outfit to wash the stations spotless while ensuring that jail population is made up of the most significant cases awaiting trial and not mostly two-fighting or loitering as is the current situation.

   Just like we all like to work in a clean environment, I’m sure police people too would like the same cos as the saying goes, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys…

   Currently, we have Monkeys
3. Rotimi Olarewaju says:

   February 16, 2012 at 19:55

   Put a dog in a pack of wolves and what do you get?
   The conditions under which our police men and women serve are pathetic to say the least.
   The police stations can criminalize anyone who visits them regularly (let alone those who are made to work there). Every single one I have had the displeasure of entering for one reason or the other STINKS to high heavens.
   Jail cells are overcrowded and most times, suspects (who are mostly unfortunate citizens caught in the middle of one fracas or the other and without a means to make bail) are made to sit, eat and defecate on the floors of corridors of the stations. Little wonder no sane person chooses the police station as a dispute resolution ground except in cases of severe frustration.
   The current administration should try and clean up the police stations (rather than spuriously fund the office of the NSA) as that is likely to give raise to a sane police population. I’m sure this will be a minimal expenditure relative to some inexplicable figures we have noted in the 2012 budget so far.
   Primarily, the police force should engage the services of a cleaning outfit to wash the stations spotless while ensuring that jail population is made up of the most significant cases awaiting trial and not mostly two-fighting or loitering as is the current situation.
   Just like we all like to work in a clean environment, I’m sure police people too would like the same cos as the saying goes, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys…

   Currently, we have Monkeys