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Show "Grafting" In Nigeria. , AmoiiK the commonest and inn' I troublesome of the offenses with which the courts of Nigeria luwe to J deal, how oxer. Is that of personation lor oMoitlon. Wearing a fez. cap or I some other article of disused soldier's , uniform or eairyhiR some dlscardod entelcpe carelessly dropped, a lean will present himself at a village and claim by this token to be an emlssarj from the government. The credulous natives deliver up all ho denmudi- Any hesitation Is met by the throat that on his report the government will (losttov the town. Many cases have been before the courts la which isiieh extol tlnu hail been going on for months tindl.scoxerod. |