Nigeria’s IGP bans arbitrary arrests, phone searches and youth harassment by police officers

Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has issued a directive banning arbitrary arrests, harassment of youths, and the checking of mobile phones by police officers across the country. Rising concerns over police misconduct, particularly after recent comments by the United Kingdom opposition leader, Kemi Badenoch, on police abuses in Nigeria, caused the directive. […]

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