Another facebook user,Ushah Daniel narrates how Nigerian police arrested and detained him for wearing beards. A must read.

One of the sacred liberties of man is the liberty to move freely. Unless where legitimate exception is permitted by law, any limitation on a man’s liberty to move freely is an infringement on his fundamental right. In Nigeria, such infringement is actionable either as a common law tort called false imprisonment or as a breach of constitutional right of personal liberty guaranteed under Section 35 (1) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Third Alteration Act) to the effect that “Every person shall be entitled to his personal liberty and no person shall be deprived of such liberty save in the following cases and in accordance with a procedure permitted by law”. It should be stated clearly that different procedures of enforcement apply in pursuing a case of false imprisonment and a constitutional right enforcement for unlawful detention.Read below how the Police profiled a young man and arrested him for keeping beards.

Detention by the Police or any other body or authority, no matter how short, may be a breach of fundamental right by both the Police and the complainant. But that can only be so if the detention is found to be wrongful or unjustified in the first place.

So sad........