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The research paper appraises the concept of human rights accorded to citizens as guaranteed by the local and international laws or conventions particularly in the administration of criminal justice, rights touching on security and peaceful co-existence. It examines some fundamental rights provided by the chapter IV of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) that ranks paripassu with related legal instruments on Universal Declaration on Human Rights or Charter. The effort utilises judicial pronouncements or decisions which defines the scope, limitation, application or extent of human rights application from the legal standpoint and considered scholarly works by authors in research institutions and electronic medium that expressed divergent views on human rights protection and enforcement. However, the research paper identified how some of these rights are being violated, denied or infringed by the concerned authorities or law enforcement agents owing to flagrant abuse of legal process or power. The paper proffered necessary recommendations required to review certain legislation and procedure in view of providing suitable framework for protecting human rights as envisaged by law in the realm of criminal justice, peace and security.

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