IGP, NBA president move to end police-lawyer clashes

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Olatunji Rilwan Disu, and the President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Mrs Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, SAN, person agreed to fortify nonrecreational collaboration and connection to curb recurring clashes betwixt lawyers and constabulary officers and amended justness delivery.

The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Ani Iniedu, disclosed this successful a connection connected Tuesday pursuing the NBA President’s sojourn to the Force Headquarters, Abuja, wherever some institutions discussed ways to deepen practice wrong the justness system.

Badejo-Okusanya called for person engagement betwixt the Police and the Bar, including specialised grooming for lawyers and stronger enactment betwixt Police lawyers and members of the wider ineligible profession.

She stressed that lawyers and constabulary officers person complementary responsibilities successful the justness strategy and urged some sides to extremity confrontations that could undermine nationalist assurance successful the medication of justice.

The NBA President besides highlighted a UNICEF-supported inaugural connected children’s entree to justice, proposing that a constabulary lawyer beryllium disposable astatine each constabulary presumption to supply ineligible enactment to children who travel into interaction with the juvenile justness system.

Responding, Disu said the Police and ineligible assemblage indispensable run arsenic partners successful the pursuit o...