Sowore said the police should understand that their misconduct is not limited to physical harassment of citizens to which the authority reacts when there is public outrage orchestrated by video or audio evidence.
Omoyele Sowore, human rights activist and the candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2019 and 2023 presidential elections has lambasted the Nigeria Police Force over alleged misconduct by its officers and departments.
Sowore said the police should understand that their misconduct is not limited to physical harassment of citizens to which the authority reacts when there is public outrage orchestrated by video or audio evidence.
The #RevolutionNow convener said this while reacting to the statement issued on Monday by the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, announcing that the police officers who were caught on camera assaulting a young man labelled as a fraudster (Yahoo Boy) in Kwara State were facing disciplinary action in Abuja.
Sowore wrote on X (formerly Twitter), "The Nigeria Police should understand (even when they pretend not to) that police misconduct is not limited to physical harassment of citizens to which you @policeng react when there is public outrage propelled by a video or audio evidence.
"Misconduct includes the corrupt involvement of all cadres in compromising public safety and most importantly, prosecutorial misconduct carried out by your legal departments across Nigeria.
"These legal misconducts have sent many Nigerians into untimely deaths, crippled finances of innocent persons and congested prisons with the highest number of awaiting trial inmates.
"Today in Ilorin, Kwara a police prosecutor sent an innocent religious freedom activist, #TaniOlohun back to prison over a bailable offence of “Defamation of Character” (assuming there is an offence) because your prosecutor opposed his bail, claiming he had no traceable address.
"There is just too much injustice by @PoliceNG misconduct. People are hurting all over the place due to all variants of police misconduct."