A Lagos State High Court sitting in the Ikeja division has ordered the release of a man named Muideen Bilau who had been imprisoned for nine years without trial. This was contained in judgement given by Justice Rahman Adesola Oshodi, discharging Muideen Bilau on Monday after nine years of remand at the Kirikiri Medium Correctional Centre.
January 23, 2023A Lagos State High Court sitting in the Ikeja division has ordered the release of a man named Muideen Bilau who had been imprisoned for nine years without trial.
It was learnt that Bilau was arrested on 5th of April, 2014 around Igando area of Lagos State where he paid a visit to one of his friends from his hometown of Oyo, Oyo State and was arraigned on Monday, 14th of April, 2014 before T. A. ELIAS at Court 5, Abule Egba, Ikeja Magisterial District, for an alleged offence of defilement and later remanded in the Kirikiri Medium prison, now correctional centre.
Yusuf informed the Court in his petition to discharge the Defendant that the Defendant had been remanded in the prison now correctional center since April 14, 2014, without trial. In fact, the state preferred information against the Defendant in response to his application for the enforcement of the Defendant's fundamental rights filed with the Federal High Court on May 21, 2020. He stated that the preferred date of July 16, 2020 was an afterthought.
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