TRIAL FOR MR B

On the 4^th of August 2011, Abia State University Law Clinic conducted a follow up visit to Okigwe prisons. One of the cases followed up was that of Mr. B, an indigent young man who was charged with armed robbery at magistrate court, Okigwe in July 2009. The magistrate remanded him pending the DPP’s recommendation which was to have been filed within 21 days.

The clinic decided to help the young man through three clinicians namely Bethel Godfrey, Adiele Promise and Ukanze Chukwunonso. They obtained the charge sheet and the certified true copy of the last court proceeding from the magistrate court. At the DPP’s office, they were received warmly and introduced to the state counsel in charge of the matter. With the DPP’s help, the case file was located and the DPP gave his opinion. Information has now been filed in the high court and the state will proceed to prosecute the young man as is his constitutional right.