By Political Animal.
Citizens with terrible experiences.
” I met someone in court who has been locked up for months.The only offence was disobeying curfew, and was paraded as an armed robber”
Fashion designer arrested and locked up for months for not wearing face mask ,but paraded as an armed robber because her family failed to pay N200k”
” My relation was picked up on his way to church on Sunday morning, reason being that he was wearing crazy jeans .He was added to others who were also picked up like him .And they were paraded as kidnappers”
I was locked up by the police over something i didn’t do and the police wanted me to bribe them so that they can release me .
Since they couldn’t get me to bribe them ,they later charged me to court.As God would have it,the magistrate struck out the case after several months of court sittings.”
Many lawyers have provided surport for fellow citizens ,on probono.There are significant number of those who have been locked up for more than a year without any reasonable offence.
I don’t believe that the Nigerian Police is irredeemable,it is just the political will to get things done.
In this country,
there are two ways to be fooled.
One is to believe what is not true,
the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
Bail is not free.
No matter the jingles.
For now , that’s the country we found ourselves.
WELCOME TO NIGERIA.
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