Extreme Xzam

The whole Nigeria is supposed to be celebrating and jubilating the recent victory of our U-17 players, who just won their first World Cup as the first African team to win the tournament. But because Peter Obi decided to hijack the limelight from them, it’s been 48hours and everybody has already been distracted from this victory and moved on, like nothing happened. I wonder what those girls will be feeling right now. I really hope the government will still do something more deserving and organize a national event to celebrate the girls.

The police system appears irredeemable. The expectations I had of Mr. Disu @TunjiDisu1, based on hearsay testimonies about his record, are waning. New sheriff in town. The same old system. Almost everything about the system seems out of place, right from what they send to people as invitations. It feels like an ambush and a needless game of hide-and-seek. I would expect that when you invite someone, the person has adequate information about what he is being invited for. Their invitations are usually nebulous, needlessly so. I consider this a ploy to unduly prolong the process. For instance, if I knew that I had been invited in relation to an "alleged case of conduct likely to breach public peace" because I threatened to kill a neighbour's goat, I would be well advised and could proceed with the necessary information and even witnesses. They will never do that. What you see about the police in Nollywood movies is exactly what the police are, if not even a step below: "What is my offence?" "When you get to our station, you will know." I have only seen very few invitations in which they briefly hinted at the actual basis of the invitation, and those were cases involving "big" people. Whether you are arresting or inviting a person, they are entitled to be informed of the basis of that arrest or invitation. They are also entitled to call their lawyers or family members to inform them of their arrest. People try to call relatives during arrests and are denied the opportunity. I was at a police station last year when a young man was bundled in. After several pleas, he was allowed to call his brother. While searching for the number, one Inspector Victor delivered a deafening slap to the young man. "You dey destroy evidence!" I was very enraged, and the scorn was reflected on my face that when he was trying to justify his inexcusable behaviour, I turned my face away from him. It turned out that the fellow had not deleted any evidence and, in fact, was completely innocent of what they had brought him in for. The police are a hopeless institution. I say that advisedly. Its unsuitability for redemption, in my view, became apparent very recently, when colleagues who double as police officers were defending police demands for money from complainants. It is one thing to do that in private. It is the height of shamelessness and impunity to speak for its propriety in public. By way of interjection, I am not sure that we fully grasp what it means for a police officer to load a gun and shoot a suspect at close range. That young man's murder troubles me. Even butchers who are licensed to slaughter animals are more gracious and cautious. That video and the action is captures should worry us all, but we have moved on. A lawyer who doubles as a police officer should be a check on the system, a corrective lens through which the system should see things clearly and do them right. Alas! If the Pope becomes a police officer, he is a police officer. Any practitioner who is committed to ensuring that things are done properly and is well trained in law would find the police's modus operandi nauseating and consistently embarrassing.

Nigerians are behaving like they know it all, 112 is ONLY active in an emergency situation and that was no emergency. The fact that it failed on National TV does not mean that it will fail you , it may not connect in the first few days.

Omo..are you guys seeing this 😳

Everyone should have their PVC and use it please. Enough is enough ❌🥺 They lavish your money and tell you they’re working Underground.. as per “Miners” na

My brother no police station can survive without all this road block money and bail money I won’t lie to you majority of them would leave the job if all this wasn’t there .

Unlawful & illegal. Investigation has commenced into this incident please. We say #notoimpunity