Time to mend Nigeria’s broken criminal justice system (1)

THE Nigerian criminal justice system is fundamentally flawed and the defects manifest at every processing point on the entire criminal justice system line - from the failure of governance institutions to design a suitable criminal justice policy that serves the current needs of the country, to the inability of the legislature to appropriately transform policies into laws, from an oddly designed judicial system plagued by massive corruption, incompetence and crippling bureaucratic bottlenecks to an outdated and counterproductive style of policing and a correctional services that inhumanely warehouses those considered ‘innocent’ by the very law of the society that imprisons them.