Throughout Nigeria and other countries, torturing citizens is becoming a widespread way of controlling citizens. UN statistics report that 120 countries use torture as a device of obtaining information and running the country and in Nigeria alone, 2,000 people report torture cases each year. Torture in Africa is particularly violent, with victims having limbs chopped off or doused in acid or burned. In Nigeria, civil liberty groups have called for an abolition of the use of torture by security agencies. Ibechukwu Ezike, the director of the Civil Liberties Organization, claims that the “police are the guiltiest of using torture on suspects.” The National Law Enforcement Agency of Nigeria denied this saying they only “gather information through intelligence.” Agencies like the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission say that they use polygraphs, MRIs, Electroencephalographs, and truth drugs (sodium thiopental).Even though agencies deny that they don’t use torture as a way to acquire information from suspects, I highly doubt this. There have been too many reports of torture by law enforcement agencies. This relates to what we have been learning in class because it shows the power that the government has over citizens and their rights. Nigeria is corrupt violence, but there are groups working to abolish torture practices by security agencies.
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