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How The Nigerian Police, Judiciary, Prison And Healthcare Sectors Cause More Problems To Insane Offenders: The Way Forward

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A colloquial Psycho-social explanation on the above Nigerian matter by Prof John Egbeazien Oshodi

I did not fully know then. Read this story to get what I am saying.

I was on holidays from my secondary school. Around 6 am in the morning I can hear my father and my mother speaking in a very low voice in Hausa language (they do this when they do not want the children to understand them). I knew something was wrong.

My mother started weeping. Then with her calm voice she said son get ready to follow your father they just transferred him to where nobody wants to go.

Is not too far from here (Warri) my son get ready. The police driver is waiting. He will drive you and your dad then you will then take a boat to get his new station

He will be the S.O (station officer).

Good God, that woman was naturally brilliant with no formal education due to traditional maltreatment of young females (early marriages). Just like now with these females.

Then I went straight to dad. I said let us go.

We got to the place. A swampy riverine area. A small building with two adjacent rooms. One side is the police post. The other side was our room and parlor.

Hmmm. Come see afternoon mosquitoes. As worse as the night ones.

He had two policemen under him.

We cooked and eat beans day in and day out.

After a few days I asked my father a lefty handed man while writing on his diary (a habit I never got into).

I said why are you all the way here from Warri city.

He looked at me intently and intensely.

“Ejonny (john). It is called   retaliation transfer ” i was only 14 or 15 years old. Sir, please explain.

“this senior officer is serving Benin city headquarters, but he is a native of Warri each week he visits he wants us in Warri to come greet him…give him something. I stopped visiting.:”

My son this is the result.

We only spent less than 10 days in the swamp as a signal came from Lagos that my father should return to Warri asap. There was a young senior officer that had served under my father but was now in a very in a very sensitive position in Lagos the main headquarters. He heard about the abuse of power from my mother whom he took as his second mother (that woman do not play ooo).

Guess what the wicked oga ( so called powerful person) by way of retaliatory transfer reportedly was moved from Benin city headquarters to  a training school as the new ogakpatakpa. No more oppressed officers coming to see him with special “gifts” This was in the 1970s oooo.

So the psychology of emotional transfers, a motif in diabolical or unobjectionable institutional environments started long time ago oooooo.

20 years later while my  father was visiting me and my older brother in USA having been shot in the eye by arm robbers he saw books like ” police management,  prison management, probation and parole administration, criminal investigation, criminal law…” he began to scream. Son I am a police trainer we need this in Nigeria.

I was doing my master’s degree then.

He said you will come home ooo.. they are waiting for you… meaning police SPO ( senior police officer) training college.

I said sure I go come. I said dad I saw what you and many others went through. That is why I am a police scientist. He screamed again.

I really wanted to return home during this military era.

As usual my mom who was very spiritual and bold said God forbid. In letters after letters she said no way oooo

This was in 1987.

I wrote back. Mom I spoke to the training commandant I told him I have degrees in police and prison management/science. He said after my training I will become their lecturer as no one has such degrees.

” I don’t care your father’s people, the whole country (mind you there is no state she has not lived in as a police wife) something is wrong here. You must not come back to this gutter or I will do something to myself:

My father after many months returned home.

I did not tell him my talk with mom.

As I started ruminating on my mother’s warnings and recalling the insane institutional behaviors I  saw as a child… the retaliations especially I decided to study psychological medicine with a focus on clinical psychology, police/prison psychology, forensic psychology. With a PhD in my hand. I visited Nigeria after 10 years of sojourn.

My father now a retiree said son he is waiting for you. The commandant. I met him he liked me and was happy to see me. I promised to come back the following year (1992).

Someone told my mother the plan. she waited till I got back to America. Saw me off from Uromi to Lagos airport.

First phone call. ” my son that your father with their nonsense plan (she is from idumague of uromi.. bold and proud people). If you come then see what I will do to myself… my son I know you I know you like book, if you mistakenly write or say anything they will retaliate… they poison each other, they petition each other it is a war…”

I took my mother’s advice.

After she visited America returned home and was killed because the there was no light during a minor surgery in a Benin city hospital in 1999. I have been in and out of Nigeria silently since then….

Back to this female officers. What crime or offense did they commit in the age of the social media?

I ask again ogakpatakpas and madams (so called powerful persons) of Nigeria tell me ooooooooooo.

Let me go and sleep it is almost 3 am my time

I weep.

We will get there institutionally and democratically in 59 years. Rest in power pap and mom.

Prof John Egbeazien Oshodi is the founder of Psychoafricalytic Psychology and expert is Democratic issues in emerging societies like Nigeria.

Psychoafricalytic Psychology:

Psychoafricalysis or Psychoafricalytic Psychology also known as Oshodian Psychology is a theory of inner mental processes, conscious intentions, observable actions, formation of human personality,   perceptual orientations, cultural undertakings, spiritual presentations, biochemical variants  in the African perspectives (Oshodi, 2012).

REFERENCE:

Oshodi, J. E. (2012). History of Psychology in the Black Experience: Perspectives Then and Now: A psychology in the perspective of the history of the Africans and people of African descent. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

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In reality, the Federal Ministry of Justice should have its Office of Public Prosecution fully developed with a functioning Sex Crimes Unit working closely with establishments like the Nigeria Police, Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, Youth Development and other related agencies in order to ensure the successful investigation and prosecution of all felony sex crimes as well as protecting victims fully.

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It should be noted that mental health care is far from perfect in first world countries when it comes to addressing the needs of insane offenders but what entails in a promising nation like Nigeria needs urgent diagnostic study with the outcomes aggressively put to full implementation and usage.

It is an undeniable fact that mentally disturbed persons with substance abuse disorders have more extensive criminal problems and demonstrate a higher level of risks and needs when compared with persons with mental illness alone.

In comparison to another emerging nation like Ghana with a comprehensive Mental Health Act of 2012, the existing Mental Health Act of 1959 from Britain remains in place in Nigeria followed by here and there formulated mental health policies of the 1990’s especially.

As such the vulnerable like the mentally ill criminal offenders are cut out from modern and commonsense ways to approach their custody and care;instead a person deemed to be a civil lunatic as described by British lingo and others with mental and criminal backgrounds fill up our custodial spaces such as police cells, and prisons minus the jail system which does not exist in Nigeria.

All this is happening as there are no legally or reasonably bound provisions for interaction between the mental health system and the Criminal Justice outfits.

A current observation of how mental health service is provided to the criminally insane offenders shows that the federal government under the leading role of the healthcare decision makers continue to lack the basic practice of forensic psychology in regards to the application of scientific, procedural, or specialized knowledge of psychology to the criminal justice system for the benefit of mental health consumers.

By law and policy, all the regional psychiatric teaching/specialist and general hospitals lack forensic hospital facility or units. The nation lacks forensic based evaluation and treatment centers like public forensic hospitals. Our police, judiciary and the courts and the prison system who are still in their old ways due to dearth of extant or current mental health laws/policies, lack guidance on forensic based healthcare services.

Consequently,the provision of quality assessment and treatment of patients with criminal status remain wholly poor and inadequate.

We have no system designed to fully integrate forensic based treatment and security in behavior management environments, thereby jeopardizing the safety of patients, staff, and the general public.

We have no designated system or facility that offers a wide range of health care services for people who need emergency mental health care around the country.

Since the Federal Ministry of Health is the foundation for the sustainability of quality healthcare and upright governance in the nation, it should serve fully as the main watch dog in the society that protects the mentally ill especially those with legal challenges.Under an atmosphere of collaborative spirit between the Federal Ministry of Health and the criminal justice system, the courts especially, workable and measurable strategies for effective and humane management of the mentally ill offenders are needed now.

President Muhammadu Buhari continues to emphasizes to Nigerians to expect more commonsense approach to issues such as mental healthcare, therefore let us see meaningful and updated policy change and practices by the government and attitudinal modification in our criminal justice system in order to reverse the current plight of the mentally disturbed persons and those with substance abuse disorders marked with criminal acts.

Dr. John EgbeazienOshodi, a Florida Forensic/ Clinical Psychologist writes from Abuja, Nigeria. Jos5930458@aol.com

This article was originally published on January 4, 2016 in The Nigerian Voice Online Newspaper.

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