Nigeria: Prosecutorial Role of Nigeria Police

opinion

THE Nigeria Police, the primary source for prosecution and criminal charges, was an afterthought.

The police was set principally to protect the colonial administrators from attacks by locals. That is why Nigerians called them 'Police Eliza,' a ridicule meaning police for and of the Queen.

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