The Nigerian Correctional Service have a statutory duty to raise alarm if anyone has been detained beyond six months without trial. It failed, too.
Saka Azimazi asks, WHERE IS JUSTICE?
The National Human Rights Commission, by several statutes and by practice, CARRY OUT prison audit EVERY YEAR. How did this escape its audit for 18 years? Where are the annual prison audit reports? What does the commission do with its report apart from awarding a contract for printing? Printing that doesn’t reach the public? Where is ACJA? Where is the Public Complaint Commission? Where is the NBA Human Rights Committee headed by a national vice president?
The Nigerian Correctional Service have a statutory duty to raise alarm if anyone has been detained beyond six months without trial. It failed, too.
Magistrates have a duty to inspect detention facilities within their territorial jurisdiction at least once every quarter.
How did we arrive at this multiple system failure? Have lawyers failed Nigeria? And failed humanity.
Alozie Echeonwu (one-time President of CLASFON, one-time member, Council of Legal Education)
Lost his liberty at 14. Perhaps he lost the opportunity to write WAEC and JAMB when his age mates did.
Besides a menial job opportunity, what is his employability?
Will a decent lady agree to marry him? What chances has he got to be accepted by a prospective father in law?
How much did the neighbours give the police to take him away ?
Shouldn’t an arresting officer answer to higher authorities to justify their actions?
Hasn’t the court system failed this citizen by remanding him for so long without concluding his trial?
How many of the magistrates who handled the matter have been elevated to the higher bench?
How much was paid to the prison officials to include his name on the list for gaol delivery this year, and why wasn’t he on the list last year ?
Doesn’t the prison system do a form of audit at least once a year?
“This case raises alarming questions about prison administration, record-keeping, and oversight, highlighting the need for transparency and accountability in the correctional system.”
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