The purpose of this visit was to engineer the process of releasing pre-trial detainees. Especially persons whose cases have been looked in to but latter neglected in the long run due to one reason or another.
The Absu LawClinic team met with the Deputy Comptroller of prisons Mr Obilor George for this reason. He welcomed the clinicians warmly and told them to come back on Friday, 19th February, 2016.
The team hopes to interview and counsel this inmates, to know the main reasons for their detention, sadly, from the cases we have handled in the past, we have come to realise that most of the inmates do not even know why they are in detention, because they were just arrested without been told the offence (s) they were arrested for, they have never been served any court papers nor have they been represented or queried by a legal practitioner.
We hope to process their individual cases with a view to facilitate their prompt release from detention.
It's our duty to the community.
Absulawclinic
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