The case mirrors other cases where the police and the authorities occupy been criticised for pointless arrests and prosecutions in Nigeria.
A Grade ‘A’ Old Court docket sitting in Mapo in Ibadan has ordered the remand of two brothers – Usman Wasiu, 20, and Toheeb Wasiu, 26, for allegedly insulting a police officer.
The brothers pleaded now not responsible to the two counts of conspiracy and breach of peace filed against them.
The president of the court docket, S.M. Akintayo, admitted every of the defendants to bail within the sum of N200,000 with two legitimate sureties in care for sum.
Akintayo ordered that the sureties must show off evidence of three years tax payment to the Oyo Assert authorities and must moreover enjoy a sound identification card every.
She adjourned the case till 2 July for listening to.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Ayodele Ayeni, a police inspector, had informed the court docket that the defendants dedicated the crime on 13 Would possibly moreover fair at about 12.30 a.m, on the entrance of Mapo Police Put, Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo Assert.
Shedding more light on the matter, Mr Ayeni acknowledged that the Wasiu brothers cursed and shouted abusive phrases on Insp Taiwo Ige and two other personnel.
In accordance with the prosecutor, the siblings extinct the abusive utterances in inform to incite the public against the police, thus causing breach of peace.
He current that the offence contravened the provisions of sections 516 and 249 of the Felony Code Cap. 38 vol. ii law of Oyo Assert 2000.
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The case mirrors other cases where the police and the authorities occupy been criticised for pointless arrests and prosecutions in Nigeria.
Lawyers and civil rights advocates occupy known as for an pause to criminalising freedom of expression as a instrument for retaliation or declaring superiority in step with petty, cheeky remarks.
Moreover working counter to democracy principles, detaining and prosecuting contributors for such petty offences suggests a misallocation of sources that would be better extinct to take care of more severe prison cases. Additionally, this apply worsens the continuing snarl of penal complex overcrowding.
Observers occupy moreover current cases where charges and the rules below which they are introduced develop now not match the minor acts of suspects, indicating desperation to prosecute for private as a change of public pursuits.
(NAN)
