A bricklayer, Idris Saula, will never be the same again after six years of his life were stolen by the country’s criminal justice system.
Saula was held in the Kirikiri Correctional Centre in Lagos State for six years despite legal advice from the state’s Directorate of Public Prosecutions that he should be released five years earlier.gathered that the 36-year-old had in 2014 gone to work at a construction site in the Sangotedo, Ajah area of the state.After a few days in custody, he was transferred to the Ikeja office of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, where he spent five months.
The victim, while recounting his ordeal, said his inability to pay N50,000 to the policemen at the Ajiwe Police Station for bail was behind his predicament. Saula said in 2017, some inmates in the medium security prison were moved to the maximum security prison, because the medium facility was congested.
The 69-year-old mother said nothing was heard until eight months later when some freed inmates said they sighted him in Kirikiri.
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