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September 26, 2006
CDHR secures bail for 7 Warri Prisons' inmates
WARRI— SEVEN of the 17 inmates awaiting trial at the Warri Prisons in Delta State who were recently offered free legal services by the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) in the state have been released on bail by the different courts hearing their cases following the intervention of the group, chairman of the committee, Mr. Oghenejabor has said.
By Emma Amaize
Posted to the Web: Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Mr. Oghenejabor who stated this, yesterday, in Warri while briefing newsmen on the visit of the committee to prisons in the state said the prosecution had discontinued the case against two of the inmates following the intervention of the group, while bail applications for the other nine were being pursued.
On the visit of the committee to Sapele Prisons, last Friday, he said that the CDHR has offered free legal services to another batch of 23 inmates and would pay the fine ordered by the court for three inmates already convicted by the court to enable them regain freedom.
They are Austin Duwa who was convicted for stealing and ordered to pay a fine of N5,000 by an Oghara magistrate court or face a one-year jail term; Ochuko Ekpo, convicted by a Sapele Magistrate Court for assault and to pay N20,000 fine or serve a jail term of two years; and Friday Akponowo, convicted by an Eku magistrate court for stealing with a fine of N20,000 or four years, six months imprisonment hanging on his neck.
He said that the condition of Sapele Prisons, especially the sewage system was very deplorable and called on the Federal, state and local governments to come to the aid of the inmates, as prisons was supposed to be a place for reform and not punishment for the inmates.
Posted by Publisher at September 26, 2006 04:36 PM
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