{"id":62851,"date":"2018-07-05T15:46:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T14:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=62851"},"modified":"2018-07-05T15:46:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T14:46:50","slug":"the-nigerian-police-pidgin-english-mentality-by-tayo-demola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/the-nigerian-police-pidgin-english-mentality-by-tayo-demola\/","title":{"rendered":"THE NIGERIAN POLICE & PIDGIN ENGLISH MENTALITY BY TAYO DEMOLA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nHave you ever wondered what language can do to a person? Do you know that
\nthe language a person speaks and the culture associated with such language
\ncan influence that person’s way of life and particularly the way such
\nperson behaves?<\/p>\n

Now there are a whole lot of questions we need to ask ourselves and try as
\nmuch as possible to find answers to them if really we want to solve a lot
\nof problems confronting Nigeria. These issues may sound funny but they are
\nreally serious. Sometimes it is those issues we ignore and feel they are
\nnot important that are often the underlying reasons why certain people
\nbehave in certain ways. For us to know why some people often exhibit
\ncertain behavioral tendencies, we need to properly examine a lot of things
\nabout them and including their language. There is no doubt that a lot of
\nhuman traits are associated with language or the type of language a person
\nspeaks.<\/p>\n

Now let me ask Nigerians these pertinent questions. Why should the average
\nNigerian police man always speak pidgin English even among themselves? Why
\ncan’t police men communicate in good English even when they actually
\nunderstand English but they chose to communicate in pidgin English? When
\nyou go to the average police station in Nigeria for a case, what common
\nlanguage do you hear police men communicating among themselves? What is
\npidgin English and how did the language come about? If pidgin English is an
\nadulteration of the standard English and since Nigeria has chosen the
\nEnglish language as an official means of communication, then why can’t our
\npolice officers speak good English to us when we get to the police station?<\/p>\n

When an average Nigerian police man stops you on the road and asks for your
\nvehicle particulars or asks you any other questions or when you have any
\nother encounter with an average Nigerian police man and you try to politely
\nexplain certain things to them in English, why is it that they often make
\nstatements like: “This one na grammar im dey speak”, “Your grammar too
\nmuch”, “So you wan show me say you go school abi, you think say me I no go
\nschool too”? Why do we have police men in Nigeria with this type of
\nmentality? Do we really deserve these type of police men in the first
\nplace? In advanced climes, a police man will politely ask you questions and
\nexpect you to explain yourself and would readily listen to you while you
\ntry to explain. They would not query you over the type of grammar you speak
\nbut would only be interested in knowing if you have committed a crime or
\nnot or to wholeheartedly carry out any investigation they need to carry out
\non you. In Nigeria, a police man would find fault with you just because he
\nis looking for a way to extort money from you or to make you bribe him for
\nan offense you committed instead of either applying his discretion and
\nletting you go if he needs to, or bringing you to book according to the law.<\/p>\n

I have often said that Nigeria can never succeed without a good police
\nforce. In fact no nation can develop without a good and dependable police
\nforce and who must be incorruptible and impartial at all times. Also,
\nNigeria can never develop with the present crop of police force where
\nimpunity, lawlessness, corruption and brutality reign supreme. What is the
\neducational level of the lowest rank or the lowest Cadre of the Nigerian
\npolice? What type of training does the average Nigerian police man receive
\nat the police training colleges? Who are those that actually train these
\nofficers and can we proudly say that the average Nigerian police man is
\nadequately trained on weapon handling and on the proper ways to relate with
\nthe civilian populace with the necessary exhibition of civility and proper
\nconduct? If our police men are properly trained and given the right
\norientation, why do we have so many cases of police brutality, accidental
\ndischarge and brazen extortion as well as flagrant breach of the law by the
\npolice that are supposed to be shinning examples to the people and are
\nsupposed to enforce the law? Is it not an unfortunate irony that the police
\nthat is supposed to enforce the law and protect the citizens are now the
\nones breaking the law and brutalizing the very people they are paid with
\ntax payer’s money to protect?<\/p>\n

Let us examine another issue. If for example the lowest rank in the
\nNigerian police force is a university graduate and you meet him on the road
\nwhile asking for your vehicle particulars or he stops you at the
\ncheckpoint, will such police man be offended by your polished English and
\ntell you angrily that you are speaking grammar? If that police man carrying
\nthat gun at the checkpoint passed through the four walls of a university
\nand after spending a minimum of four years in the university, he proceeded
\nto do another one year national youth service, after which he joined the
\npolice, would he not be more refined and polite in treating people than
\nsomeone who never went through all that education? Will he suddenly release
\nhis gun and shoot an innocent person dead at the checkpoint just like the
\nyouth corper lady that was shot dead in Abuja yesterday just because she
\ndidn’t stop at the checkpoint? If she didn’t stop at the checkpoint when
\nyou asked her to stop, does that warrant you killing her? If she didn’t
\nstop or if she committed any crime, is killing her a way to apprehend her
\nfor such crime?<\/p>\n

So I really wonder the type of training our policemen receive at the
\ntraining colleges because the rate of extra judicial killings, brutality
\nand impunity in Nigeria is so glaring that every day we hear one story of
\nbrutality or the other. But the bitter truth is that Nigeria can never
\ndevelop unless the entire police force in Nigeria is sacked and disbanded
\nfor a fresh set of police men and women who would be properly trained,
\ngroomed and given proper orientation on what policing is about and how to
\nrelate with the people. Do you think this is not possible? It is very
\npossible to systematically sack the entire police force of a nation and
\ngradually move the personnel into another institution or government agency
\nand then while also gradually recruiting freshly trained and properly
\norientated men and women with integrity to man the police force. This may
\ntake several years to achieve and would also require massive capital
\ninvestment but it is possible.<\/p>\n

Only a Nigerian leader with vision for this country can do this and I’m
\nafraid we may not be able to achieve this in our present generation except
\nthe government has the will to take this drastic action that will be a
\nturning point in the history of Nigeria. When we talk about restructuring
\nNigeria, it cannot be done unless we have a strong and reliable police
\nforce. The government should stop the recruitment of people with school
\ncertificate into the Nigerian police force. This may sound funny and
\nunachievable but it will go a long way to reform our police force for
\nbetter crime detection and crime fighting. The minimum educational
\nqualification the government should allow into the police force should be
\nthe Diploma or its equivalent or even a degree. Recruitment into the police
\nshould not be based on nepotism, tribalism or ethnic considerations. It
\nshould be based purely on merit. When a person is properly educated,
\nenlightened and exposed, it is certain that his behavior, orientation and
\nattitude will definitely change and this will affect people around him as
\nwell as affect his community.<\/p>\n

Nigerians are good people and law abiding people. Yes we are suffering and
\nsmiling according to the legendary Fela and that is why there is so much
\nbrutality and impunity by our security agencies against the very people
\nthey are meant to protect, yet they feel they are doing us a favor by
\nprotecting us but this should not be so. This is simply because the
\nmentality of many of the Nigerian police men is not properly channeled
\ntowards protecting the people as the primary reason why they are given that
\nuniform. So they need to be reorientated on the core values of policing.<\/p>\n

Another issue worthy of consideration is that every police station in
\nNigeria should be headed by a Divisional Police Officer (DPO) who must have
\na Masters degree. The police should not continue to rely on experience and
\nother considerations alone in appointing police officers to manage police
\nstations or divisions. While experience must count, the level of the
\nofficer’s education should equally be very important. I have heard of a DPO
\nwho has personally come to the bus stop to arrest market women trying to
\nmake a living for themselves but as if that was not enough, one of the
\nwomen told me the DPO even personally slapped her several times. Yes if
\nthey have breached the law, bring them to book but why assault them in the
\ncause of doing your job? Nobody is supporting crime but even the police
\nitself is not above the law while carrying out its duties and in fact the
\npolice should be the number one institution in Nigeria to obey the law and
\nthey are not above the law. What about the DPO in Agege, Lagos who
\npersonally shot and killed a protester some years ago in one of those extra
\njudicial killings and brutality by the police?<\/p>\n

But would a police officer who spent all those many years in the university
\nbefore obtaining his degree or masters degree ever involve himself in such
\natrocity knowing fully well the implications of his actions? Will he not
\neven be ashamed to speak pidgin English to you knowing fully well that it
\ncould be degrading for him considering his level of education and exposure?
\nIf he is properly educated and enlightened, will he get offended or jealous
\nof you while at the checkpoint just because you spoke good English to him
\nor because you drive a big car?<\/p>\n

If a young man is well polished in his manners and well dressed with a fine
\ncar and speaks good English and also knows his rights as a citizen of
\nNigeria, does that mean SARS or the police should tag him a yahoo boy or a
\nfraudster? Is that part of the orientation of the Nigerian police and is
\nthat their own way of detecting crime? In saner climes, the police could be
\nmonitoring and studying or putting a suspect in surveillance for several
\nmonths or even years before eventually apprehending him if they are sure he
\nhas a case to answer but in Nigeria, by mere seeing a person the police
\nwill tell him he looks suspicious and that alone to them is enough to
\narrest him and illegally clamp him into detention. This is wrong and we
\nmust stop this type of barbarism and wickedness if Nigeria must move
\nforward.<\/p>\n

Pidgin English is a language of the streets and of the market. It is a
\ndebased form of the English language. It is not our official language so I
\nsee no reason why the average Nigerian police man you meet at the police
\nstation should stick to pidgin English and if you are not willing to speak
\nthat pidgin with them, they will tag you an “over sabi” person. The
\nNigerian police should stop embarrassing every person who speaks good
\nEnglish or every person who knows his or her rights as a citizen of
\nNigeria. The police must realize that it’s primary duty is to protect lives
\nand property and to maintain law and order. The Nigerian police must focus
\non this and refrain from behaviors that could bring its name into disrepute.
\n\u200b God bless Nigeria. \u200b<\/p>\n

TAYO DEMOLA
\nHUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST
\nLAGOS, NIGERIA
\nEmail:\u00a0tayodemola@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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