Abia State Governor, Alex Otti has lamented that many innocent people who are in detention have remained in the place without getting justice because of lack of money to get an attorney.
Governor Otti, who said this in Umuahia during an opening ceremony of a training program by Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators , said it was a pity that a lot of people were in detention without having the opportunity to visit the courtroom. The Governor, represented by his Deputy, Ikechuckwu Emetu, said the training was necessary for everyone to make sure that those who were supposed to get justice got it in Abia.
Otti used the opportunity to say that his administration inherited over 193 billion naira in debt from the immediate past administration He advised lawyers to utilize the gains of the training in rescuing innocent persons languishing in various detention centres.
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