Why Abuse Of Human Rights Has Continued Unabated In Nigeria | Sahara Reporters

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Indeed, section 60 of the Police Establishment Act, 2020 provides for the appointment of lawyers to man the human rights desks in the over 5, 000 police stations in Nigeria.

No doubt, Nigeria has ratified and enacted a few human rights treaties of the United Nations. Apart from the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights which was domesticed in 1983, the Federal Government has merely ratified other conventions of the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States.

With respect to the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights the Federal government has deliberately refused to join 10 other African States that have made Declarations to enable aggrieved individuals and Non-Governmental Organisations to access the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in accordance with Article 34 of the Protocol for the Establishment of the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights.

In the same vein, Section 21 of the Nigerian Correctional Services Act 2019 which provides for regular visits to all correctional centres by designated persons including the National officers of the Nigerian Bar Association. The purpose of such visits is to decongest the correctional centres. But he statutory Prison Visitors have not conducted any visit since the law was enacted in 2019.

 

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