Do Nigerians have right to record policemen doing something illegal? – Punch Newspapers

• Femi Falana SAN, (Human rights lawyer)

Why not? Ordinarily, we are supposed to have CCTV all over the place. Contracts were awarded in Lagos and Abuja, but the money was criminally diverted. About $470m was stolen. In all the cities of the world that have CCTV, these illegalities are naturally recorded so if ours was working, individuals wouldn’t need to do that. In the United States and other countries of the world, you have CCTV. The traffic lights also have cameras such that if you break the law, your number plate and car would be captured and that is how your address and details would be traced and you get a ticket. Also, in all airports in the West where there have been terrorist attacks, the criminals have been traced through CCTV.

So, it is a sign of backwardness on our part that our country has not installed CCTV because that is the primary way of detecting criminal…