POWERS OF PROSECUTION BY LAY POLICE OFFICERS UNDER THE POLICE ACT AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT 2015: THE WAY OUT
), Musa Kasim Bello(2), Lukman Olakunle Alimi(3), Hassan Abubakar Leda(4),
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The power to prosecute criminal offences ultimately lies with the Attorney General of the Federation and States and the States respectively. However, such power can be exercised by other bodies as may be provided by statutes but subject to the overriding powers of the Attorney General. The Police is empowered to exercise such powers subject to the powers of the Attorney General but whether a lay police officer can exercise same before any Court in Nigeria is still laced with legal arguments requiring judicial expositions. The enactment of the Administration Criminal Justice Act and particularly the Police Act 2020 though regulates the power of the police to prosecute when they are legal practitioners also gave none-lawyer police the power to
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Powers, Police, Prosecution, Attorney General, State, Agency, Statutes
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