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

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THE University of Ilorin has become a trending topic online as they used Singer Portable and the embattled Nigerian senator, Ike Ekewremadu as a case study in an exam question.

From the question paper, it could be observed that it was the Faculty of Social Sciences Department of Criminology and Security Studies Harmattan Semester Examination, 2021/2022
Session.

The exam questions goes thus:

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).

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).
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).