A Warri based legal practitioner, Mr. Fred O. Olokor, said this while presenting a paper, “An insight into the National Association of Seadogs’ Legal Assistance and Prisoners’ Rights Initiative, LAPRI, at the Rainbow Deck Law Day event at the Anchor Point, Effurun, Warri, Delta State, yesterday.
Olokor, a former balance mate of the National Association of Seadogs, NAS, who described holding charge as a criminal justice administration system where the police will-fully arrest a person on the suspicion of having committed offences ranging from murder, rape, treason, robbery, arson and so on and are arraigned before a Magistrate Court that has no jurisdiction to entertain such case and is therefore remanded in prison custody.
He stated that the whole process is unconstitutional and inhuman as a man ought in the first place have a prima facie case against him before he should be brought to court to face trial, expressing regret that in spite of its illegality, the unwholesome practice still holds sway in the country.
The legal practitioner who revealed that the NAS LAPRI programme introduced in the 2004/2005 sail charter is meant to primarily to provide access to justice to prison inmates whose rights have been violated due to their unlawful incarceration in prison as well as prisoners rights and to provide from time to time a fair and accurate report on the state of Nigerian prisons as well as other issues arising from the prisons.
The initiative according to him ultimately aims at bringing about reforms in the Nigerian prison system by getting the government to live up to its responsibilities of evolving a workable solutions to improving the standards of our prisons and the inmates welfare...
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