THE DUTY TO RETREAT OR ESCAPE AS A REQUIREMENT FOR THE DEFENCE OF SELF-DEFENCE IN NIGERIA
‘Such a person may hope for clemency from other quarters; he cannot expect it from the law. It would be surprising, and indeed dangerous, if it were otherwise. The legal right to kill in self-defence cannot be made to depend upon the temperament, nervous or courageous, robust or weak, phlegmatic or excitable, of the individual killer. For those who claim to have exercised the legal right to kill, the law, insists upon on standard: it is the standard of reasonable man’
