Nigeria: Bribery, Bail For Sale at Lagos Police Station - Innocent Civilians Jailed, Criminals Recycled

[Premium Times] Investigative journalist FISAYO SOYOMBO spent two weeks in detention -- five days in a Police cell and eight as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison -- to track corruption in Nigeria's criminal justice system, beginning from the moment of arrest by the Police to the point of release from prison. To experience the workings of the system in its raw state, Soyombo -- adopting the pseudonym Ojo Olajumoke -- feigned an offence for which he was arrested and detained in police custody, arraigned in court and eventually rema