Who will Police the Police? The Agbor Collins Story
Buea , January 17, 2010
By Fiona McAlpine and Clíona Martyn
Following the Legal Facilitation Session, organised by Global Conscience Initiative, held at Buea Central Prison on the 15th January, I was left with a strong rancid taste of injustice. A story of police brutality, a realisation that the police must also be policed, and justice must always be fought for.
As I sat in the crowded workshop, in a dusty store room of Buea Central Prison, I was struck with a surge of panic. Not due to the rusty gun perched behind me or the creaking roof that threatened to cave in every time someone sneezed. But because of the words and stories of the detainees, the simplicity of their crimes, the fact that they were no different from me. I could see myself, in another life, positions reversed. I could imagine myself chewed up and spat out by an impoverished society, one in which the rights of man are not universal, but available on purchase. Read more >>>