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Nigerian police are a danger to public safety because they consider extra-judicial killings an acceptable policing method and raping women as a fringe benefit, a report by a Nigerian civil rights group said.
The Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN) said it had monitored 400 police stations in 13 states for a year and found that killings, torture, extortion and rape had become routine because the authorities shielded policemen from the law.
The findings, reported in Nigerian newspapers on Monday, come after chief of police Mike Okiro said last month his men had kil... Read more
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Revelation in police sex case
Suppression orders surrounding the police rape trial have been lifted, revealing the fact that two of the accused are serving jail terms for a historical rape.
A jury comprising eight men and four women have found Assistant Police Commissioner Clint Rickards, and former police officers Bob Schollum and Brad Shipton not guilty of indecent assault and kidnapping a 16-year-old Rotorua girl between November 1983 and August 1984. Each man faced one charge of kidnapping and one of indecent assault.
But the lifting of the suppression orders has revealed that Shipton and Schollum are serving time for the rape of a woman at Mount Maunganui in the late 1980s. Shipton is serving eight-and-a-half years and Schollum eight years.
The complainant in that case said she was duped into going for a lunch date only to find herself raped by five men, one of whom remains unidentified. Peter Mana McNamara and Warren Graham Hales, were also convicted.
Brad Shipton's lawyer Bill Nabney has welcomed the not guilty verdicts in the latest trial and says police have advised him there are no other investigations pending into his client.
Clint Rickards has been suspended on full pay while the current case has been before the court. He says the police is a great team to work with and he's proud to work with the team.
But he believes the teams which carried out the investigation are a shambles and need to be investigated.
Rickards says he is looking forward to going back to his job as assistant police commissioner.
But police have revealed Rickards will remain on suspension while employment issues around him are investigated.
That is expected to take some time.
Louise Nicholas, who was the complainant in another historic rape trial involving all three men, was in the courtroom when the verdicts were read out. She looked extremely upset and left quickly. The men were also acquitted in the Nicholas trial.
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