Lagos police officers allegedly explain why jungle justice is better than handing a criminal over to them

As shared by Instagram user, Nev Harrison below...
I was in computer village Ikeja when this thief was caught while ransacking an office he walked into and found no one on seat. On interrogation, it was discovered that he also uses voodoo charms to sell fufu padded dummy phones to people. 
Now my concern is this: when the police arrived, the only suggestion they made was that the boy should be beaten up and set free afterwards. "Why not take him to the station and punish him there?" The office owner asked the police responded by saying nothing will come out of it and in fact the only person that will spend money is the official owner if eventually the thief is taken to the station and charged to court...are you beginning to see where our local criminals get their confidence from?