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Title:The police under the Nigerian constitutions
Author:Ojo, J.D.ISNI
Year:1993
Periodical:African Notes: Bulletin of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan
Volume:17
Issue:1-2
Pages:13-31
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:constitutions
police
Abstract:After briefly reviewing the role of the police in precolonial and colonial Nigeria, the author focuses on the postindependence period and the formal constitutional provisions made for the police under the various independence constitutions. Special attention is paid to the political structure of the Nigerian government as a federal system and its implications for the organization and conduct of the police force. The author concludes that the constitution should provide more safeguards to ensure police impartiality and neutrality in politics. The duties of the Police Service Commission as in the 1963 Constitution should be retained if Nigeria is to avoid the abuse of power experienced between 1979 and 1983. People's loss of confidence in the police force because of its inability to rise above partisan politics contributed in no small measure to the collapse of the Second Republic. Notes, ref.
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