THE NIGERIA POLICE & NIGERIAN LAWYERS: FRIENDS OR FOES?
It is an open secret that the relationship between the Nigeria Police and Legal Practitioners is marred with hostilities. Sometime in June, 2018, it was reported that a Legal Practitioner in Warri, Delta State, was beaten to a pulp in the course rendering his legal services, by members of the Nigeria Police attached to A' Division, Warri. A video of the incident can be found at https://twitter.com/jarule147/status/1006179461472178176?lang=en Shortly after, the news of Police brutality meted on a Legal Practitioner and on the Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Ilorin Branch, rocked the internet. These reports are just a few of the many unpalatable experiences of Legal Practitioners' interface with some members of the Nigeria Police, which gave rise to the long overdue peaceful discourse between the Police and Lawyers, held on 28th November, 2018, in Asaba, Delta State; Tagged ' COLLOQUIUM: TOWARDS BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE SYNERGY BETWEEN THE NIGERIA POLICE