Nigeria, Feb. 28 -- If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges. One goes to the unprotected - those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! - and listens to their testimony. - James Baldwin

I was watching the pipping of the new Acting Inspector General of Police on television when I saw the PCSO to the President attempt to adjust the IGP's beret. The military instinct in me, forged in military school, immediately recoiled at the sight; it felt sacrilegious. I struggled to imagine a world in which a junior officer would dare to touch the beret of a serving, retired, or even dying Chief of Army, Naval, or Air Staff.

Upon making inquiries, I le...