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Zambia: Police Human Rights Tr
SINCE the transformation of the Zambia Police Force to the Zambia Police Service began, the institution has undergone considerable surgery.
People have spoken of changed officers in approach to the public, be it at roadblocks or over counters in police stations.
The police force was built on the concept of brutality, that is why there were persistent complaints on tactics used to extract information from suspects.
There were tales of beatings that amounted to torture. In short this was the concept aped from the then Eastern bloc countries which trained policeme... Read more
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Nigeria Daily Independent - Ik
25 April 2006
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Corruption: Police, Customs Ex
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, on Monday accused the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and the Nigeria Police of exhibiting the lowest degree of integrity in the discharge of their duties.
This was his verdict at a special retreat organised for Senior Law Enforcement Officers as it became apparent that the EFCC boss turned the forum into a soul searching and recrimination one.
To buttress his point, Minister of State for Finance, Mrs. Esther Nenadi-Usman, shocked her audience with revelations of how a very corrupt Customs officer, spent N20 million to host an event. It was also disclosed that the Federal Government has budgeted N204 billion for the Security sector in 2006.
Participants for the Three Day Retreat with the theme, “Building Integrity for Professional law Enforcement”, were drawn from the Police, Customs, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) and State Security Service (SSS). Not mincing words, Ribadu, in his opening remarks, accused men of the Nigeria Customs of conveniently looking the other way, while smugglers flood Nigerian markets with contraband goods, saying, “if you go into our markets, chances are that 50 to 60 per cent of the goods there are smuggled.”
“Most of the cars you see on the roads got into the country without the proper process. Meanwhile we have the customs,” he lamented.
He was no less bitter about the activities of the police, his primary constituency, observing that, “every day in Abuja, we record up to 15 robberies. How many cases, do we hear of robbers being prosecuted in court? How many of these robbers are being sent to jail? He queried adding: “I feel terrible, when I see records of what is happening in the security sector, particularly in the Nigeria Police Force.”
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