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About 95 per cent of inmates in Nigeria are awaiting trial, says prisons boss

About 95 percent of the inmates in Nigerian prisons are those awaiting trials and have committed simple offences which ordinarily ought to have been non-custodial.
These assertions were made by the Alhaji Yusuf Kasali, the Comptroller of Prisons, Oyo State last week while on a courtesy visit to the Chief Judge of Oyo State, Justice Mukhtar Abimbola in his office at the State High Court Complex, Ring Road, Ibadan.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN

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