The ban was contained in a circular to Police Commands across the country.
The instruction form the Inspector General of Police became necessary
due to some police men who would flout privacy rights of law abiding citizens by stopping and searching their phones without recourse to legal processes.
Officer in Charge of Complaint Response Unit (CRU) of the Nigeria Police, Abayomi Shogunle tweeted:
With
this order, the Police are unable to search phones of civilians under
any pretext without first obtaining a search warrant from a competent
court with jurisdiction.
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