Section 16 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 16 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Arrest by a Judge or Magistrate. It provides as follows:

(1) A Judge or Magistrate may arrest or direct the arrest in his presence of a person whose arrest upon a warrant he could have lawfully ordered if the facts known to him at the time of making or directing the arrest had been stated before him on oath by some other person.

(2) Where a person is arrested in accordance with the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, the Judge or Magistrate making or directing the making of such arrest may deal with the person so arrested in the same manner as if the person had been brought before him by or under the directions of any other person.