Folaranmi Esq. @EsqthatInspires - Twitter Profile

16 days ago

There was a time the police stopped a tiler coming to do some repair works for me. He had some tiles that he bought in the car. He presented them with a waybill, but they insisted on the receipt. They held him. I went to the station with the receipt. When I got there, the first thing I did was to commend the officer for doing his work. I presented the receipt. However, two things provoked me to deep contempt. It provoked me so much that I am certain that our approach of allowing police excesses, massaging their ego, and paying them where we should guide them is creating more problem. They started from the argument that since the tiler couldn't present the receipt when they asked for it, the receipt is no longer valid. When I showed them how ridiculous such argument was, they moved to the other. "Oga, shey you know say if that person wey you buy tiles from no get CAC certificate for him company, na you and him we go charge?" If I engaged a lawyer to step in in that case and his approach was to massage ego and probably "tip" them, I would question his qualifications and consider him a professional misfit. I always cooperate with the police. When they're on the road doing stop and search, way before it gets to me, I roll down the glass and turn on the inner light (at night). "Officers, thank you for all you do" is something that I often say. However, I will never play by "their rules" when it is clear that they want to extort or create an issue where none exists. If a lawyer is going to the police station to "play by their rules", "massage ego", and "wet palms", anyone can also do it. No special skills or training is required. In fact, if lawyers start elevating those practices as the norm and ideal approach, I advise those with police cases to go with a relative who will do that for them, instead of a lawyer. It saves money. You don't have to pay a professional fee to a lawyer who is not going there to do a professional work. I am pissed that lawyers could come online to celebrate impunity. Something that we should condemn firmly. We are coming online to poke fun at a lawyer who is doing what is right. Police themselves lack the gut to come public to state that such is their practice, because they know that it is wrong. Yet, lawyers are promoting it for them at the expense of the people. It is another level of embarrassment for the profession. For someone doing the right thing to be the butt of a joke from his colleagues? No.

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