Nigeria: Lawyers React As Nigeria Police Classify Pepper Spray As Offensive Weapon

Last Tuesday, a Twitter user, Dolapo Pizzu, alerted Abayomi Shogunle, an Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of the Police Complaint Rapid Response Unit, that she had been arrested and taken to a police station at Igando, Lagos, for being in possession of a pepper spray.

Mr. Shogunle responded:

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