Dynamics of Police Extortion on the Nigerian Highways.

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dc.contributor.authorIbrahim, Abdullahi, Kayode
dc.contributor.authorIsiaka, Monsurat
dc.contributor.authorSalihu, H.A
dc.contributor.authorBalogun, S. O
dc.contributor.authorAkangbe, T.A
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-11T15:56:57Z
dc.date.available2023-05-11T15:56:57Z
dc.date.issued2018-03
dc.descriptionExplorative reading on the police extortion on the Nigerian highwaysen_US
dc.description.abstractThe 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 extortionen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipAuthorsen_US
dc.identifier.citationIbrahim, A.K., Isiaka, M., Salihu, H.A., Balogun,O.S. & Akanbge, T.A (2018): Dynamics of Police Extortion on the Highways. Ilorin Journal of Sociology. 10(1); 134-144, Published by Department of Sociology, University of Ilorin, Nigeria.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1117-9481
dc.identifier.urihttps://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/20.500.12484/10139
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDepartment of Sociology, University of Ilorin, Nigeria.en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries10(1);134-144
dc.subjectNigeria Police Force; Extortion; Highways; Commercial driver; Traffic rulesen_US
dc.titleDynamics of Police Extortion on the Nigerian Highways.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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