The Chief Judge of Ebonyi, Justice Elvis Ngene, on Tuesday at Ukpa, Afikpo in Afikpo North local government area of Ebonyi released 12 inmates of Afikpo Custodial Centre during a jail delivery. Ngene said the goal of the delivery was in exercise of powers conferred on him by the 1999 Constitution as amended which was aimed at decongesting the custodial centre.
The CJ pointed out that the exercise was not aimed at throwing open the gate of the facility for suspects to go but rather to provide succour to those inmates that deserved it. “The exercise is to grant freedom to those who may have overstayed their sentence if they were tried and convicted to serve their terms.
“The exercise is also to grant bail to those who have been in custody over minor cases which are bailable offences and whose cases information have not been filed on. “The jail delivery is not for those standing trial for capital offences or those whose cases are already before courts of competent jurisdictions,” Ngene said.
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