ABSTRACT
Criminal law creates both crime and the criminal; in turn, crimes and criminals create judiciary and criminal procedures. For an indigenous Nigerian society, where all such criminal justice concepts are alien, there could be no judiciary and criminal procedures. This chapter descriptively analyzes the emergence of a Western judiciary and criminal procedure model in a formerly stateless society, how the new judicial system currently exists in symbiosis with customary law and procedure, and factors that have in«uenced the operation of the Western and Nigerian customary models.
