Ekiti Chief Judge frees 22 awaiting trial inmates, 543 cases reviewed

The Chief Judge of Ekiti State, Hon. Justice Lekan Ogunmoye, connected Tuesday freed 22 awaiting-trial inmates of the Nigerian Correctional Centre, Ado-Ekiti, during his quarterly visitation to the facility.

The Chief Judge said the workout was successful enactment with his law mandate nether Section 34(1) of the 1999 Constitution and Section 12 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Ekiti State.

A full of 543 cases were reviewed during the visit, comprising 535 antheral and 8 pistillate inmates. Of the number, 18 inmates were released unconditionally, 3 were granted bail, and 1 was released connected the proposal of the Director of Public Prosecution for having nary lawsuit to answer.

Justice Ogunmoye thanked stakeholders successful the justness assemblage for their enactment and said the visitation would beryllium sustained. He promised to instrumentality to the centre earlier the extremity of the year.

In his invited address, the Comptroller of the Correctional Centre, CC Alaba Ajeleti, commended the Chief Judge for the decongestion exercise, describing it arsenic “great succour” for inmates. She, however, lamented that the installation was overstretched.

“The centre was primitively designed to location 324 inmates but presently accommodates 937 inmates,” Ajeleti said. She urged the Chief Judge and the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Dayo Apata, SAN, to liaise with relevan...