A working group on the legal status of inmates in correctional centres in the country, set up by the Federal Government, on Wednesday, submitted its report to the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, decrying the terrible and unbearable conditions faced by inmates at the correctional centres across the country.
The facilitator of the working group, Mr Olawale Fapohunda, SAN, revealed that most inmates are languishing in prisons due to a lack of legal representation and the inability of the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria to cope with the huge number of cases.
Fapohunda said that while auditing the correctional centres, the group interfaced with categories of inmates and found their conditions unpalatable.
He said that in one custodial centre, the working group discovered at least seven inmates remanded for offences relating to terrorism who…
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