Police brutality is not a Nigerian thing or unique to Warri. All over the world there has been protest and
complains of injustice and oppression especially from the police force. A former US police officer Jeronimo
Yanez was recently acquitted of
manslaughter in the shooting death of 32-year-old Philando Castile.
Philando Castile A respected school nutritionist, was one of 233 African-Americans shot and killed by police in 2016. This is startling, considering it’s in the United States, the supposed land of the free.
Philando Castile A respected school nutritionist, was one of 233 African-Americans shot and killed by police in 2016. This is startling, considering it’s in the United States, the supposed land of the free.
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world,
none of us can truly rest freely from various forms of social injustice
especially.
It was Carl T. Rowan that said that It is often easier to become outraged by
injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block
from home, many of us have tweeted black lives matter, but only a hand few have
lend their voices verbally or virtually about Raid and Bail by the police in Warri.
Nigerian Police Force have repeatedly said bail is free, but they have continually extort and oppress civilians through bail. While we have utmost respect for the Nigeria police, only a small fraction 20% of them believe civilians might be people. They have seen civilians as a tool or objects of exploitation especially if you’re an average Nigerian.
NewWarri has seen the wrong, inequality and injustice from the police in Warri and we are speaking out about it, because this is our city. If we remain neutral in situations of injustice, we have chosen the side of the oppressor. We have visited the Area Command, Nigeria Police force Warri.
Nigerian Police Force have repeatedly said bail is free, but they have continually extort and oppress civilians through bail. While we have utmost respect for the Nigeria police, only a small fraction 20% of them believe civilians might be people. They have seen civilians as a tool or objects of exploitation especially if you’re an average Nigerian.
NewWarri has seen the wrong, inequality and injustice from the police in Warri and we are speaking out about it, because this is our city. If we remain neutral in situations of injustice, we have chosen the side of the oppressor. We have visited the Area Command, Nigeria Police force Warri.
True patriotism hates
injustice, especially in its own land more than anywhere else. On Tuesday the 17th of October we went to the Police Area Command, Warri we spoke with a high ranking officer.
What
is Raid and Bail?
This is a strategy that Nigerian police officers are
using to extort Nigerians. They go to a particular area and round up people
especially young people and take them to the station without interrogation or
questioning, because they know family members will come and bail them.
Now this is supposed to
be the case with the raid and bail, but in Warri, the police go for these raids in the evenings and in the nights, and they are aware that they can’t carry out investigations that night, sadly
the station/cells is not a place any Nigerian want to spend nights, so
they make frantic efforts for the release of unfortunate family members or
friends who has become victim of these raids, and here and there, the police
demands for bail ranging from five thousand and above for release without any questioning or
interrogation.
This is the modus operandi in
Warri especially at B division. The last time I was there, on a case of Raid
and Bail, (My elder brother who was arrested and I paid for blocks, before my elder brother was released) those rounded off were kept in separate room and money collected by a
lady officer before they are released without questioning or interrogation.
Time and time again the police
after rounding off civilians to the station in areas that cannot be classified
as criminal hideouts or on information of criminal activities, will make excuse that the civilians were
seen at very late in the night or indecently dressed.
Newwarri is not making case for
indecent dressing or late night movements but hey, it’s their basic human right
to dress the way they like or move when they want as long as they are not infringing
on anybody’s right. The police are your friend but yet
their house (station) and action is the most unfriendly place to be or endure.
Nothing in the entire world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and often time ignorance can make a person act foolishly. Now that we have been informed, Join us spread the word, and come out against this form of injustice, they have no right to detain you, if you are innocent, don’t give them anything. They have come to realize that Nigerians are always in a hurry, so when they go out for these raids our loved ones will always come to bail them.
Nothing in the entire world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and often time ignorance can make a person act foolishly. Now that we have been informed, Join us spread the word, and come out against this form of injustice, they have no right to detain you, if you are innocent, don’t give them anything. They have come to realize that Nigerians are always in a hurry, so when they go out for these raids our loved ones will always come to bail them.
If only our holding cells can be as
conducive like the ones we saw in Prison Break, nobody will hurry out when they
know they are innocent.
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