The Lagos State Government at the
weekend disclosed that of the 5,000 inmates in different prisons in the
state, no fewer than 4,000 were still awaiting trial, representing 80
percent, Thisday reports.
The state government added that through
its newly initiated mobile courts, it had successfully prosecuted 1,107
persons who violated different environmental and traffic regulations in
the state.
The Attorney-General and Commissioner
for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem, disclosed this at a news conference he
addressed alongside his information & strategy counterpart, Mr.
Steve Ayorinde, and the state’s Solicitor-General, Mrs. Funlola
Odunlami, among others.
He noted that 80 percent of 5,000
inmates in the prisons across the state “are awaiting trials in spite of
the effort of the state government to decongest the prisons. A lot has
to be done in decongesting prisons in the state.”
He said the state government had
introduced community service in order to address prison congestion,
saying 2,073 offenders were sentenced “to various terms of community
service across the state’s 12 Magisterial Districts between May 2015 and
March 2016.”
According to him, the offenders actively
assisted to improve their respective communities instead of being
incarcerated in prisons with the consequential disruption to their
economic, social and family lives.
Further details later.
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