Tuesday 25 September 2012

ALARMING: 92 Percent Of Prison Inmates In Anambra Are Awaiting Trial

                                           

If the reports credited to the Anambra State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice is anything to go by, then there is urgent need for the Governor of Anambra state to wake up from his slumber. The report states that the  Attorney-General of the state said 92 per cent of inmates of the three federal prisons in the state were awaiting trial. According to him, out of 1,379 inmates in the federal prisons, only 109 were convicts and the rest 1,270 were awaiting trial. He further lamented that the total staff strength of 56 law officers in the state Ministry of Justice was grossly inadequate to meet the number of cases pending in courts. Oya let the Governor start working on this, haba.

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