The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) yesterday gave shocking revelations in the Abakaliki Federal Prisons, stressing that the facility needed urgent attention.
The commission said more than 15 of the inmates awaiting trials in the prisons have gone mad and require urgent medical attention. It also said many children and their mothers have been languishing in the prisons for years for common offence which ordinarily shouldn’t have warranted their being taken to the prisons.
The Executive Secretary of the commission, Prof. Ben Angwe, made the revelations yesterday at Government House, Abakaliki during a courtesy call on Governor Dave Umahi.
He said the commission was in Abakaliki to probe the attempted jailbreak of August 18 this year in which many inmates reportedly lost their lives. “Some two weeks back when I led a team of the commission on – the – spot assessment of the situation there in the Abakaliki prisons and found very pathetic situations.
A situation where the inmates awaiting trial are more than 80 per cent and that has been the situation for years. “Sadly, if you enter any of the prison cells, you find that the inmates have nowhere to sit, lay or squat.
In the nights, they take turn to sleep; some of them sleep for two hours and they are woken-up for other inmates to sleep. “So many cases there are very sympathetic. We saw a woman with two children in the prisons.
She was accused of stealing cocoa yam of N400. They refused to grant her bail. They made difficult bail condition for her that require two sureties who are on level 16 in civil service.
You can imagine somebody who was accused of stealing N400 worth of cocoa yam, what access will she has to a grade level 16 officials of government?”
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