Delta CJ Sets Two Kidnap Suspects Free From Prison
Afimag.com –
Delta State Chief Judge, Hon. Justice Tessy Diai, has set two Abubakar Abdullahi and Ufuoma Victor, detainees at Sapele correctional Centre on March 24, 2023.
The two inmates were in detention over cases of kidnapping regained freedom as Justice Diai began the first quarter of the 2023 jail delivery exercise.
Discharging the inmate, Justices Diai revealed that the court had, earlier, struck out the same case, involving two other defendants, charged along with Abubakar Abdullahi, when he was still in Ogwashi-Uku correctional centre, adding that there was no justification for his continued detention.
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She said, “In the light of this development, there is no good reason for the continued detention of the defendant in this facility. He is hereby discharged.”
On his part, the elated Abdullahi expressed joy over his release stated that he was innocent of the criminal charge preferred against him.
He said, “I only went to the market to buy a cell phone, and it was thereafter that an unknown person accosted, and struggled to collect the phone from me and before I knew what was happening, I was arrested and taken to court.
Earlier in her opening remark, Diai said “the purpose of the jail delivery exercise is to ensure that everybody in custody is in legal custody, and that no inmate awaiting trial has stayed beyond the number of years he would have served had he been convicted.”
The chief judge also released 16-year-old Isaac Frank, from Remand Home/Children Correctional Centre, Sapele, reviewed the cases of 208 inmates awaiting trial at the Sapele Correctional Centre, while 11 were at the Remand Home.
She was accompanied by the Chairman, Administration of Criminal Justice Committee, Justice G. B. Briki-Okolsi; Justice A. E. Okorodas and Justice A. A. Ighoverio.