The Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Justice Husseini Baba-Yusuf, has discharged at least 30 inmates awaiting trial across the two custodial centres in the Keffi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State.
The intervention was facilitated by the Public and Private Development Centre, a non-governmental organisation, in collaboration with Baba-Yusuf, who discharged the inmates during an official visit to the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Keffi on Thursday.
“We have decided to give hope to the hopeless. There are a lot of people who shouldn’t be here in the first place. Baba-Yusuf blamed the congestion in the custodial centres and incarceration of those inmates who should not have been incarcerated in the first place on different factors. “We saw people who have been here and granted bail but could not afford as low as N20,000. We saw people who have been here due to Gender Based Violence.
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