POLICE TORTURE AND DEATHS IN CUSTODY IN NIGERIA
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ABSTRACT
The incessant torture and abuse of suspect in police custody have in this present time a clamorous terrain.Nigeria as a country where serious cases of abuse of police authority and human rights infringements by security agents often stimulate intense public debate and the underlying fact that let to EndSARS protest. Although there have been consistent denials by the leadership of the Nigerian Police on the use of torture-based interrogations to elicit information from arrestees, extant literature affirms that the police rely on different forms of torture as principal means of investigation.
However this study investigated the recurrent problem of torture , death and abuse of human right by the Nigerian police. Triangulating both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection. 50 purposively selected in-depth interviewees and 10 officials of the ijebu-ode Ogun State correctional centre who were key informants. The study found that the police rely heavily on the use of torture to elicit “confessions” from arrestees. Former detainees reported experiences that included being bound and suspended mid- air in painful positions, kicked and beaten with machetes, gun butts, boots, fists, electrical wires, animal hides, and other instruments. The lack of capacity to conduct proper criminal investigation is responsible for the reliance of the police on torture induced confessions. Therefore, there is need for the government to improve on the capacity of the Police in their investigative responsibilities and encourage professionalism among its rank and file.
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