Nigerian University Uses Ekweremadu, Portable’s Saga As Exam Questions

University of llorin, Faculty of Social Sciences Department of Criminology and Security Studies Harmattan Semester Examination,

2021/2022 Session

Course Code: CSS 311 Course Title:

Interrogation, Confession and Testimony Time:

2 Hours Instruction: Answer Question ONE and any other two

It is in the news that the UK court has jailed Nigeria’s former Deputy Senate President. his wife and a medical doctor for plotting to harvest a man’s kidney. The man whose Kidney was almost harvested made indicting (confessionary) statement which led to arrest of the trio. As a Criminologist, discuss this incidence in relations to the following terms:

I. Types of confession made by the victim. (10 marks)

II Predisposing factors responsible for making such confessionary statements. (10 marks)

III. Features of the UK police that assisted in the arrest and subsequent prosecution. (10 marks).

2 It was in the news that over 200 electoral offenders were arrested in the last general election for committing various political crimes ranging from ballot box snatching to vote buying and falsification of election results. As an interrogator (or police officer in charge of this case), discuss the necessary interrogation techniques required to generate high quality confessions from the electoral misdemeanants. (20 marks).

3. A musician, Habeeb Okikiola popularly known as Portable was arrested by the Nigerian police over alleged assaults and dishonoring police invitation. Discuss, using the four types of criminal profiling, the procedures to obtaining individual characteristics and the relationship between the personality of the offender and his job. (20 marks).

4. With relevant examples, describe the steps or procedures in criminal interrogation of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in obtaining confessionary statements from suspects. (20 marks).
a. What do you understand by untrue confession? (5 marks) b. Discuss the justification for making untrue confession in our society (15 marks).