Addressing Africa’s use of heavy-handed policing
ON THE African continent, generally, governments responses have been tailored in favour of a blanket limitation and suspension of constitutional rights and guarantees, with many states, deploying heavily armed police officers, and in some instances, military personnel to enforce lockdowns and curfews, according to Abdirahman Maalim Gossar of the African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum.
He said those disproportionately affected by the enforcement of these regulations are the poor and marginalised, which include the homeless, drug users, commercial sex workers, any former traders,
