Reincarnating Constable Ifeanyi at the Lekki Toll Gate, By Festus Adedayo

, the gangling police constable had told my father. This was sometime in the early 1980s and the scene was the ever busy Ilesa-Akure expressway, in the old Oyo, now Osun State. My father, an Inspector in the Nigeria Police Force , headed the Ilesa Signals Corps of the police.

The above impunity and brutality are as ancient as the Nigeria Police Force. Not minding its prohibition by national and international laws, a 2005 investigation of Nigeria police by the Human Rights Watch found out that torture, other cruel, degrading and inhuman treatments are being meted on accused.

This is why, till date, due to its wonky conception, the police possess scant regards in the perception of the same system it serves and the Nigerian people it seeks its friendship. The abode of its officers and men is a little of worth than a pigsty and their pay, dispiriting. When I take friends to the pigeon nest one-room apartment that I lived with my siblings and parents at the Ayeso barracks in Ilesa for about ten years, they find it incredulous to believe.

Antjie Krog, celebrated South African broadcast journalist with the South African Broadcasting Cooperation and poet, best known for her award-winning book,, a chronicle of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission drew the nexus between truth, grief, being aggrieved and the ultimate, reconciliation.

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