Browsing by Author "Balogun, S. O"

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    Dynamics of Police Extortion on the Nigerian Highways.
    (Department of Sociology, University of Ilorin, Nigeria., 2018-03) Ibrahim, Abdullahi, Kayode; Isiaka, Monsurat; Salihu, H.A; Balogun, S. O; Akangbe, T.A
    The Nigeria Police as an agent of social control services to the general public and enforces law and order. The Nigeria police occupy various locations especially on the highways where the officers check vehicles and drivers in relation to their duty of prevention and detection of crime. They often deviate from their constitutional functions by collecting bribes from the motorists especially on the highways with impunity and pretentiousness. Thus, rather than aiding security and the apprehension of criminals on the highways, police checkpoints in Nigeria have become an avenues for unnecessary delay of motorists and commuters in the quest by the police officers to extort money from them, even as criminals make the best of such scenarios to pay the government that supposed to enforce the law is the same breaking it. It is against this backdrop that this paper explores the factors influencing the exchange of bribery between police and commercial drivers. The study adopts social exchange and rational choice theories and the paper revealed that many commercial drivers were short-changed intimated delayed and extorted and thus recommended that Nigeria Police deserves an improved working condition cultural reorientation and personnel practices to reduce highway extortion
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    The Nigerian Criminal Justice System: A Cursory Look at Salient Issues and Areas of Reform
    (Faculty of Social Sciences University of Ilorin, 2022-02) Salihu, H.A; Isiaka, Monsurat; Balogun, S. O; Akangbe, T.A; Ibrahim, Abdullahi, Kayode
    This paper examines the roles of the Nigerian criminal justice actors- the police, courts and correctional service in justice administration and identifies some of the impending issues (including prison congestion, extrajudicial practices and pre-trial detention) affecting effective dispensation of justice, rehabilitation and reformation of prison inmates. Essentially it offers strategies on how to effectively address these issues within the context of legal and administrative reforms. The paper argued that for any criminal justice system to effectively protect lives and properties, safeguard the fundamental rights of individuals, and ensure fairness, rule of law must be allowed to guide the operations of justice institutions and administration of justice.