"He looks up to the clear blue sky and then across the street, to the big green prison gate he just emerged from. He still feels like he is dreaming. The same way he felt his first night in detention, exactly two years, three months and two weeks ago: as if someone had played a cruel joke on him. But he is not dreaming. His name was on the list that Lagos State Chief Judge Ayotunde Phillips called out this morning. After all this time in Kirikiri Prison without ever seeing his case in court, he is free to go.
When you enter Kirikiri Medium Security Prison, a board on the wall on your left gives the total number of inmates: 2555. Underneath this number it states how many of them are convicted: 98. And on the third line it affirms that 2457 of those are awaiting trial, about 96 per cent of the prison population. Lagos State prisons are overcrowded with people whose cases have not yet been decided on."
http://telegraphng.com/2013/09/court-chronicles-lost-cases-kirikiri/
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