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Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by Albertone(m): 11:32am On Feb 20, 2022 |
Besto: I think your problem is you think our police men are sane individuals who doesn't reason like animals. They can falsely accuse you of armed robbery, possession of drugs e.t.c. At the station,nobody will believe you if you deny it because normally, criminals do deny their crime. We don't have a police,we only have legal criminals with uniform and gun.This is Nigeria not abroad.A lot of innocent people were charged to court by the police and sentenced to prison or death. The best thing is have money to free yourself or know an important person i.e high ranking policeman,high ranking soldier, top politician or you have a good lawyer. 4 Likes |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by thinkmoney(m): 11:44am On Feb 20, 2022 |
KiNg0G:Oya bye bye....u av given off yourself too much here. People with discernment would have seen you for who you are. Enjoy your weekend bro Plus, I wasn't there with you and the policemen, but you see I was able to correctly determine the way you related with them. That's discernment. I had an issue with them just this last Sunday and I handled my experience with them way more better than yours. Find peace bro. |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by KiNg0G: 12:05pm On Feb 20, 2022 |
thinkmoney:funny how you used discernment twice, trying to show us how good you are with english but maybe you are not as sharp as you think. Boy I just felt like engaging your tantrums this morning because i know your types, mummy's pet and daddies frnd. people like you can't survive in the creeks on their own. I tell you what, the fact that you are comparing my case with yours on a different scenarios shows how immature you are and am Just wasting my time. what a joke, with all the things been said about nigeria police force you still arguing I was arrested because my English wasn't good. 2 Likes |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by thinkmoney(m): 12:17pm On Feb 20, 2022 |
KiNg0G:You like fight. But I love you however. I haven't met you before so why won't I? Note though, that there are people that have gift of reading people. I have had a lot of experiences. I never inferred that you were arrested because of your bad english. I just said confidence and the means of showing it (which good skill of communication is among), goes a long way at determining how Nigeria police treats you. This is the truth. It's not only true with Nigeria police, it holds true with everybody. They are wrong to have profiled and milked you the way they did. However, bro, I have been able to measure your personality just from here. I have looked at the way you present your thought, the way you construct your arguments, the slangs you use and even the 'OG' in your moniker and I am certain I can decide your personality to a relatively good extent. May God judge those policemen for treating u that unjustly |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by KiNg0G: 12:41pm On Feb 20, 2022 |
thinkmoney:let's make this my last comment to you, since you have a "special gift " of knowing I can't speak good English vocally and my confidence level is low that's why I was arrested, you must be a better seer than falsprophet1. boy you need to come out from your mamas womb, more often because you are still living there. when I was your age I used to think and behave this way online trolling uncesseraly, until I grew up to a man that I am. soon enough, you realise they are some cases CONFIDENCE can't handle Alone. 1 Like |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by thinkmoney(m): 12:52pm On Feb 20, 2022 |
KiNg0G:Ok. I might be older than u, OG. I am sure u gave checked my pics. That's about 15years ago. And still you might be older than me, especially when u are 40 and above. However, age is not a determinant of intelligence. Love and light bro. You have kept my company this sunday morning. There is something I am sure u will still do though, and u will be shocked when I point it out to you. Love and light OG |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by bewla(m): 1:24pm On Feb 20, 2022 |
dawnomike:He is still a learner Police ceil na child play to prison Some time it good to go on visitation so we can appreciate God more For no reason at all some one can be replace by this so call uniform 2 Likes |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by streetzdreamz(m): 4:26pm On Feb 20, 2022 |
@Op it's a sad cycle that's not ending anytime soon. I had an experience with those Sars boys during my service year. It was a lonely road and they mounted a road block, making a U-turn would indicate something sinister and since the papers were complete and I had nothing incriminating I proceeded to where they were. I was questioned and I answered them, gave my nysc I.d, driver's licence and the dude was like " I doubt the authenticity of these cards" I asked him how else should a government issued ID look like, he didn't give a response. Long story short, I ended up in a cell...They went through my phone, checked the car, saw nothing but insisted I'll be bailed. I told them no problem, I only want to know my offence, atleast I'll know what I'm paying for. Dude was like " You never ready" I finally agreed to pay when it was almost nightfall and I couldn't bear the tight space anymore because I'm claustrophobic.... I parted with 8k for an offence I"ll never know. Since that encounter, I never give in to their shitty tactics again, unless I know my offence or know I've broken any law, I'm never moving an inch with them. Once you are in their custody, you are already a victim. Those guys are wall to wall assholes. 3 Likes |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by Scientheosopher(m): 4:27pm On Feb 20, 2022 |
KiNg0G: I understand your fears. Yet, your writing is already a discredit. If you don't want a possible attention from the Nigerian Police in the first place, you shouldn't have written it. Or you don't know that from this, it's possible for a human right activist or the Commissioner of Police ( You no get connection? This Police mata na one of the ways for you to get am. I no go tell how; reason am yourself. See, for Bible, after God punish Cain, hin tell God say people fit kill am because dem plenty. So God come talk say anybody wey kill Cain Him go avenge am x7. Naso everybody take commot hand for Cain mata! Some of the connections I have, I got them via problems. 2 Likes |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by temmym4(m): 5:17pm On Feb 20, 2022 |
Besto: Pray u dont come into a minor issue that got cooked up and then became a serious issue by a wicked group of Nigeria Police. Even your ground that you held will free itself from you. Ask the experienced ones. 3 Likes |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by ElValiente(m): 5:40pm On Feb 20, 2022 |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by Pascopele: 7:30am On Feb 21, 2022 |
thinkmoney:I dey laugh you, I would have shared an experience with you but I no get power to type. |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by Pascopele: 7:34am On Feb 21, 2022 |
temmym4:Some of them talking haven't experienced anything. Just trying to bring out my phone at Pedro junction police station, the traffic warden dragged me by the trousers, saying I wanted to snap him collecting bribe, I hold ground, dragged the matter with them, then I knew you don't hold ground with police officer on their turf and that's what landed me to prison series of allegations cooked up and level against me. If not for a law firm doing csr, I would still be in prison. 2 Likes |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by Pascopele: 7:37am On Feb 21, 2022 |
bewla:fact, saw this at the police station and 2 killed by police officer at about 2:00 am 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by Pascopele: 8:10am On Feb 21, 2022 |
streetzdreamz:True once you are there, bail yourself by any means necessary. 2 Likes |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by DaBogu: 8:27am On Feb 21, 2022 |
I don’t like to remember or talk about my prison experience, the reason why I have been mute about it all through. The life there is sickening! It is an experience that can drain you for life. I’m not talking about prison in general, I’m talking about the the NIGERIAN PRISON. Nigeria is ruined tbh. And I don’t think we would ever get out of this terrible state till death. I am not being negative, I’m a very optimistic person but I have seen it all trust me. To start with, I think Nigeria is the only country where you are accused for something and without proof or evidence to show, you can be in jail for the rest of your life. If you know you don’t have families to fight for you, please don’t be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Do you know there are teenagers in the Nigerian prison Small boys barely 18 are there for Crimes they did not commit or know absolutely nothing about? While I was there, there was this boy they always call chin- chin in my cell. I kept wondering why they always called him that and asked him one day - Guy come here, why do they call you chin-chin all the time? guess his reply? “i was hungry and I stole chin chin” that was what brought him to prison. He looked gentle. I was 100% sure the boy is barely 20 years old. My heart was filled with tears but I could not cry so he doesn’t feel too bad. I asked again, are you sure that is what brought you here? He said “nothing else bro” and I was shocked! I guess he does not have people to fight for him, or probably his parents/family are tired of trying. If you know what it cost to get out of prison, you will be shocked! Everything I’m saying to you right now is real. No jokes. There was another young guy, I was particular about these young boys cos I kept wondering what they would have done to be in prison. If you see guys 30-40 years old in there, true or not you will lowkey feel they committed the crime. But not these young boys. There was this boy, he works for his oga, the oga just came one day and accused him of stealing 200k from his shop. The boy said he barely stayed 3 days in a police cell before he was brought to prison. A boy barely 20 years old! No proper investigation, nothing was done! I thought Prison was for people with serious cases. people who have been convicted for crimes committed with “evidence” or they were caught in the act When did it turn a place for keeping suspects like small boys? You know what made this particular case worse? It is the fact that the parent/ family of the boy wanted to settle out of court. Saying sir, please give us 2 months, we would pay so and so monthly to cover up but the OGA did not agree. It was hurting!!! The boy, I had to ask him again, Just gist me guy, did you move this money? He was like “bros, we are here together. There is absolutely nothing to be corny about, I did not steal his money.” Argh! I lost hope in Nigeria! This time a tear dropped! I’m talking about serving you garri with no sugar! Just raw garri in plates. No sugar, water, milk or anything to it. Just raw garri for your chewing pleasure. There are about 3 or 4 foods in the Nigerian prison. Watery beans and dead ass garri. The garri are those ones that blind your eyes over time when you eat them too much. Yes you heard me correctly. At some point, these inmates don’t see properly again, cos too much of this garri. The other is Eba and egusi, they won’t even make the eba well to start with, talk more of the egusi, it feels like hell fire. Egusi that taste like water. Guys what does water taste like again? It is tasteless!!! And they served rice. Will be honest with you guys, this was the only average food I could eat. Not cos it was sweet, but aspa u can chew rice alone now. Cos the stew was trash. Imagine putting 2-3 spoons of stew inside 2 paint of rice. Yeah that’s what it felt like. It was hell. That was the only food every one eats, cos at least you can eat raw rice and still be fine Let’s leave the food part. We move to the numbers in the cells. Here is probably the toughest part of it all, if it’s time to sleep, it’s time to cry. Think about this, look at your room; look around very well. It is just you right? Yeah it’s comfort and you don’t want anyone else. Imagine if your room had like 200 people inside it. Just the thought of it alone is sickening right? That’s how the NIGERIAN PRISON is. Imagine them placing like over 200 inmates in one room. Now forget about if They committed the crimes or not. Actualize what I’m saying here. A small room filled with 200+ people. Do you know what it feels like You can’t even fucking breath ! Talkless of sleeping !!! I fucking paid to sleep under a bed! Yes there are payments in the Nigerian prison. Everytime they bring in a new inmate, the prison guards are angry and its understandable. The marshals of each cell are angry and it is understandable. Too many persons, too little space! I paid about N10,0000 (10k) to sleep under a bed. Full time bed space cost about 30k or so. I could not afford that at that time. If you would keep inmates, for crimes committed or not! At least put them in a safe and comfortable place. Not like you are leaving them to die. Imagine me paying 10k to sleep under a bed. You should understand what it felt like to sleep in the general place. They sleep on top of each other. Yehhhh! You heard me right. They sleep in chains! People sleep on top of you. U can’t fucking move your legs! Ah I was ready to go to hell then. Cos earth was trash and the life and stress was not worth it. Guys, there are thousands of inmates who did not do shit and are in jail! The Nigerian police do not do proper investigation, please watch yourselves. Know your movements and do not stay out too late. You could be the next person for doing absolutely nothing. Nigeria can never be better. Care for yourself and your family till 8 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by lavylilly: 8:42am On Feb 21, 2022 |
Hmmmm! My 3days in Cell for an offence I didn't commit opened my eyes to another world. Hmmm! So it has become a crime to assist accident victims while driving & the bad eggs in NPF refused to do a thorough investigation because they brought a fake witness concocted by them. If not because of Almighty Jehovah GOD & Man-knows-man, I would have had it worst than that! Hmmm! Naija system, where do we go from here? Imagine my friend went to report police they stole his Keke, police detained him for a week 4 Likes |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by Nobody: 8:46am On Feb 21, 2022 |
DaBogu:Hmmm this write up just weak my body,spirit and soul. 6 Likes |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by Hamachi(f): 9:05am On Feb 21, 2022 |
I have never been their but police has arrest my ez once because of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. We use 100k settle the matter so we didn't reach station. But my junior brother has gone prison up to 3 times not police cell . He is just lucky that my dad always comes to his rescue and bail him out The last one him enter prison again my dad left him their for like 6 month before him bail him. Since then lil brother wise up and no more fumbling When him began to explain his prison experience to me mehn it wasnt funny He spent 6 months in portharcourt prison and he admitted that the experience there changed his whole perspective about humanity. He said, "I saw the weak and docile become mean and cruel when invested with little power. I saw people on life sentence laughing and playing. Totally indifferent to their plight. I saw harden people melt. I saw armed robbers doing time, plotting robbery attacks! I ritualists, policemen, military men, politicians, cultist, all doing time for one offense or the other". 3 Likes |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by QuinModah(f): 9:16am On Feb 21, 2022 |
All Rights Reserved My trip to Kirikiri Women Prison AUTHOR: Olabisi Deji-Folutile JULY 22, 2021 1:10 PM It all started a few months ago when the women group in the Opic Area of the Living Faith Church decided to pay a visit to the Nigerian Correctional Service(NCoS), formerly known as Nigerian Prison Service (NPS). The aim was to extend the love of Christ to the inmates. I had heard so much about the deplorable state of Nigerian prisons and the savage treatments that inmates are often subjected to. The story out there is that it is almost impossible for anyone to go into a Nigerian prison and return as a human being. They say our prisons turn human beings into animals. This narrative is not far-fetched going by an avalanche of reports on the problem of overpopulation in Nigerian prisons. An ex-convict of the Owerri Prison once said his cell measured 32ft in length and 28ft in width, one bathroom and two toilets with approximately 100 inmates staying there. It’s easy to imagine how dehumanising life can be in such a pathetic situation. Aside the overcrowding and poor sanitation that characterise our prisons, there is also the problem of corruption among members of prison staff. A lawyer friend told me that lawyers always bribe their way through every point to see their clients in these facilities. And like many things in Nigeria that are never enough, food is always inadequate, medicines unavailable. Government’s decision to change the name of prison service to correctional service hasn’t resulted in any real change of story. It is still the same system, with the same people and same experience! Unfortunately, majority of the people in these prisons are not even convicts. Most of them are still awaiting trial. As far back as 2018, data from the surveys done by the Prisoners’ Rehabilitation and Welfare Action (PRAWA) and the Nigerian Prisons Service showed that out of 68,110 inmates only 21, 354 were actually convicts while the remaining 46,756 were merely accused individuals awaiting trials. Back to my story, a lot of us were excited about the prison visit that finally took place on Friday, July 16- the day Lagos traffic went haywire. For me, it was an opportunity to see if all the pictures in my head about Nigerian correctional homes were real or fake. Before then, the only mental pictures I had of prisons were the images provided by our Nollywood actors which were quite repulsive to say the least. So, I had expected to see many old and undernourished women looking pale and haggard. I also thought I would see women dressed in some kind of green or blue prison uniforms, with a shaven head, cutting grass all around the prison premises. But there was nothing like that. Advertisement The first thing that shocked me during the visit to Kirikiri Women’s Prison, which incidentally is the only all-women prison in Nigeria, is that inmates wore their normal clothes- no prison uniform. Everyone looked well kept, well fed and full of life. Their hair was well plaited. They all appeared generally healthy. Perhaps, the only thing that fits into my expectation was the complete incarceration and restriction of the inmates’ movement to the four walls of the prison yard. Apart from this, the place is just like a normal girls’ hostel. I later learnt that the female inmates enjoy better services because they were fewer in number compared to their male counterparts. According to available data, female prisoners make up just around two per cent of inmates population in Nigeria. I learnt that while female inmates in Kirikiri are less than 200, their male counterparts are at least 3,000. Meanwhile, the carrying capacity of facilities for women and men are almost the same. Fortunately also for the women, the deputy controller of female prison, DCP Lizzie Ekpendu, has used her influence to expand facilities in the women prison thus further improving the living conditions there. From what I saw, the DCP deserves some commendation. She was practically like a mother to the inmates. We had waited for her for some time because she had to be around before we could have access to the inmates. By the time she came; she told us that she was held in traffic while trying to get a cake for her children’s graduation. I had thought that she was referring to her biological children until I discovered that the cake was actually meant for inmates graduating from a vocational course held within the facility. She prefers to see the inmates as her children or at best residents. To her, they are there for a while to be reformed and rehabilitated through the action of prison officials who she described as loving but very strict. This, she proved in our presence. Despite her closeness to the inmates, she insisted on what was right. She ensured that there was a roll call of inmates before our programme was allowed to commence. She also made sure that all the inmates attended the programme. No doubt, her efforts have raised the standard of life in that facility. The Kirikiri women prison boasts of some level of comfort for the inmates who also refer to DCP Ekpendu as their mum. Naturally, the inmates are likely to have their low moments as humans, but there is nothing that suggests that they are downcast at least from their looks. To be candid, I had one of the best praise sessions I have ever enjoyed in a long while during the praise time led by inmates. It was powerful. It’s as if the angels temporarily relocated their place of abode. We all danced, jumped, screamed and rejoiced in the Lord with our might and strength. The atmosphere was both lifting and hilarious. What I however found surprising is the age range of the female inmates. About 80 percent of the women in this facility are very young adults, many of them probably in their teens. Some of them are so young that they can best be described as children. It is as if the facility is only meant for young children. It looks more like a juvenile home than a women prison. I kept asking myself-how did these young ones end up in KiriKiri? What could they have done? Why is the women prison populated by young girls? What types of offences did these young girls commit? Unfortunately out of about the 200 residents of the facility, only 32 are convicted and serving their sentences. The majority – about 167 are awaiting trial, which means that the majority of the young girls in this facility are probably on the awaiting trial list. This is very sad. In a bid to get answers to some of my questions, I spoke with some of the young girls. They claimed they were victims of police raids. One of them said she went out to buy food in the night, and that he was apprehended by the police for wandering, and that was how she found herself in Kirikiri. Asked when she got to the facility, she said since last year. When I asked her about the efforts her parents were making to secure her release, I heard the unexpected. Her parents were not aware of where she was. How come? She said her parents lived in the village and she had not bothered to tell them where she was. Judging from the way this girl responded to my questions, she had accepted her fate. May be she was homeless before her sojourn to the prison. Who knows? I didn’t have the opportunity to speak with many of the girls. But I guess many of them must have been arrested in brothels or in the Red Light District of Lagos. My worry is that with what I saw in Kirikiri women prison, one could be tempted to conclude that only young girls commit offences in Lagos. Are Nigerian police telling the world that this is the situation? Why are older women not too many in Kirikiri? Is it a case of the police pretending to work by just harassing the vulnerable and ignoring the bigger and more powerful offenders? These are the real posers for the Nigerian police force. Meanwhile, I learnt that many of these girls found themselves in prison because of lack of legal representations. I also learnt that some of them were there because they do not have the means to pay their fines which can be as small as N30, 000 or less in some cases. It is also said that majority of the inmates remain in jail and await trial because they cannot afford the service of a lawyer. This is frustrating. Overall, the takeaway from my prison visit is that this country is wasting its youths on different fronts. Aside grooming child bandits, terrorists, Boko Haram insurgents, cultists, etc, Nigeria is perhaps also fast breeding child sexual workers and kid convicts. To decongest our correctional facilities of these child inmates, I suggest that government intensifies its intervention in the area of legal representation by making available more public lawyers that can provide free legal services for these young people. Food may not really be a problem for Kirikiri inmates, but the figure of the young ladies on the awaiting trial list is definitely alarming. Wealthy individuals and organisations could also bear the responsibility of providing legal services for these inmates or assist in paying the little fines that have kept them within the prison walls unnecessarily. This will go a long way in decongesting the correctional centre. Olabisi Deji-Folutile (PhD) is the editor-in-chief, franktalknow.com and member, Nigerian Guild of Editors. Email: bisideji@yahoo.co.uk 2 Likes |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by Mordson: 1:43pm On Feb 21, 2022 |
T0T0fucker: I bet you were arrested for forcibly fvcking toto. ![]() ![]() ![]() 2 Likes |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by QuinModah(f): 3:55am On Feb 22, 2022 |
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Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by Albertone(m): 9:08am On Feb 22, 2022 |
QuinModah: I asked you a question and you ignored.Because I'm insignificant ba? 2 Likes |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by Albertone(m): 9:23am On Feb 22, 2022 |
thinkmoney: So you took a picture in year 2007 and you uploaded it 10 years later. Opor fun warisi |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by Albertone(m): 9:29am On Feb 22, 2022 |
Scientheosopher: If you can't tell us how,then there is no point mentioning it. |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by thinkmoney(m): 12:34pm On Feb 22, 2022 |
Albertone:You don show through here waris OG. U no dey rest. Ma give you one pics. May God help u to be able to compare and contrast so u know opoor really
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Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by Albertone(m): 2:10pm On Feb 22, 2022 |
thinkmoney: You or your elder bro ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by thinkmoney(m): 2:24pm On Feb 22, 2022 |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by Karleb(m): 2:32pm On Feb 22, 2022 |
You go read this kain I thread and you no go aspire to maguire your way out of the shit hole? 2 Likes |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by Karleb(m): 2:38pm On Feb 22, 2022 |
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Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by QuinModah(f): 2:54pm On Feb 22, 2022 |
Albertone:Apologies! Just read from the beginning of the post therein lies your answer. |
Re: What I Learned In A Nigerian Police Cell by Lastmessenger2: 3:01pm On Feb 22, 2022 |
QuinModah:you see why I laugh when misfortune befall them. Stupid set of government paid terrorist. 4 Likes |
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