The Chief Judge of Oyo State, Munta Abimbola, on Thursday released 37 inmates in Abolongo Nigeria Correctional Service (NCS) in the state.
News Agency of Nigeria reports that the chief judge with members of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law Monitoring Committee had on Wednesday “freed 32 inmates in Agodi Correctional Centre in Ibadan making it a total of 69 inmates released in Oyo State.’’
“Seven of them were released on medical ground, two convict freed on grounds of good behaviour, two released on bail and a legal practitioner released on self-recognition.“What happened today was practically as a result of inefficiency of our trial process and we need to be alive to our responsibilities’’, he said.
Mr Abimbola said the visit of the committee was not just to release any inmate but those deserving of the gesture. “If offender cannot refrain from committing offence, we have the power to keep such a criminal from the society’’, the chief judge said.
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