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How I was assaulted, tortured at Lagos House of Assembly – Lawyer
The lawyer said he was carried like a five-year-old boy to the Assembly gate into a waiting police van. 4 min read
A Lagos-based lawyer, Yakubu Eleto, has narrated how he was allegedly maltreated by police officers at the Lagos State House of Assembly on Friday morning.
Narrating the incident on his Facebook page, the lawyer said he went to the House to submit a letter regarding a court case on the forthcoming local government elections in Lagos State when he was assaulted.
Mr Eleto said the officers attached to the House seized his phones, dragged his shirt, pulled him and “carried him like a five-year-old boy to the Assembly gate into a waiting police van with plate no RRS 387 LA,” and was whisked to the nearest police station.
Parade of suspects by the police
Basically, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) is saddled with the constitutional duty of protecting the lives and property of Nigerians; crime detection and prevention; arrest of offenders, as well as the preservation of order in the society.
But for far too long, the agency has immensely contributed to the incalculable harm that the pre-trial parade of crime suspects has done to those involved, especially jeopardising citizen’s legal rights.
Also, contrary to established conventions, statements of suspects are obtained/recorded in the absence of their legal representative thereby failing to protect the liberty and privacy of criminal suspects as stipulated by laws of the land.
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Whilst the Lagos Assembly is upbeat in passing a legislation outlawing parading of suspects in whatever guise, it leaves much to be desired why such bill has become a legislative priority in an assembly inundated with cosmopolitan exigencies begging for attention.
How has parading a suspect or it’s flip side helped the Lagos economy or its social life? It comes across as one of the inanities of the Lagos Assembly leaving exigent state matters to suffer while focusing on immaterial denouements.
Lagos has become a basket of attraction for mendicants who are ejected from other less endowed states who have adopted proactive state legislation. Beggars including other social miscreants have made Lagos one of the most unlivable spaces on earth yet Lagos assembly finds no merit in taking urgent legislative steps to arrest it.
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