https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇳🇬" title="Flag of Nigeria" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Nigeria"> police saw a man buying cattle, and the next thing is to accuse him of robbery because the thief they were chasing escaped https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤦🏽‍♀️" title="Woman facepalming (medium skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Woman facepalming (medium skin tone)"> he was was rescued after he told a visiting pastor he met in prison about his case, and the pastor provided a lawyer for him.
No mental health therapy provided for innocent people after their release, No financial compensation provided too. Many were also threatened and forced to sign confession admitting the “crime” on their way to the police station.
Another man who was arrested in 1995 on his way to buy Suya. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇳🇬" title="Flag of Nigeria" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Nigeria"> police shot his leg and forced him to sign statement in their vehicle & admit that he was an armed robber. He was released after 15 years in prison. https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/my-nigeria/2015/09/nigeria-prison-crime-didn-commit-150907101327396.html">https://www.aljazeera.com/programme...
In 2016, just one year. Judge Bello visited prisons and discovered 3822 innocent detained individuals, he worked on their cases and ordered their release. Imagine the thousands of innocent people currently in prison in different states. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/feb/26/set-them-free-judge-liberates-nigerians-jail">https://www.theguardian.com/global-de...
It’s devastating, and it can happen to anyone. It happens every day. People go out in the morning and their family members can’t find them for weeks. Some officers even set people up by keeping drugs or bullets in their laptop bags, handbags or cars during their search.
There are also people who were picked up many years ago during Saturday morning sanitation or Abiola riot or some sort of conflict that are still in prison. Also minor cases that require 6 months in prison, they spend 4 years in prison before trial.
Many people without sentence are slaughtered because of congested prison. The environment of the prison is another story. However, money is delivered for such purpose, but corruption will always prevail.
They do this also. They will receive bribe from criminals and try to use innocent citizens to do replacement.

Also, when they can’t find a criminal, they arrest random people to deceive their Oga at the top.
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