Nigeria: Drug Abuse, Sodomy, Bribery, Pimping - the Cash-and-Carry Operations of Ikoyi Prison

21 October 2019

In the second report of a three-part undercover investigative series, FISAYO SOYOMBO exposes how the courts short-change the law, and the prisons are themselves a cesspool of the exact reasons for which they hold inmates.

Too many unforeseen obstacles had sprung up against me by the time I arrived at the gates of Ikoyi Prison, Ikoyi, Lagos, on July 12: I had had my most tortuous night in the police cell; I had been messed up by the typically ruthless Friday evening Lagos traffic; I had arrived under the cover of darkness, which wasn't the plan. Even the few things that went well would later come back to haunt me.

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