Kano State Chief Judge pardons 13 inmates

The Kano State Chief Judge, Justice Dije Aboki, on Wednesday, granted pardon to 13 inmates from three correctional facilities, which include – Goron Dutse, Kurmawa, and Children Remand Home, while beneficiaries of the gestures include some from a children’s remand home in the state.

Penpushing reports that a statement by the spokesperson of the Kano State Judiciary Baba Jibo explained that the Chief Judge freed the inmates when she led other judges, magistrates, police prosecutors, other lawyers and court officials on a two-day visit to the correctional facilities

The spokesperson added that the Chief Judge’s decision was backed by sections 1 and 2 of the Release from Custody (Special Provisions Act) 1977, disclosing that all the 13 inmates had their cases reviewed during the visit by the Chief Judge before they were set free.

Penpushing further reports that Jibo explained that the decision was part of an effort to decongest the correctional facilities filled up by those on awaiting trials and inmates who committed minor offences.

‘The law permits her to consider inmates who have overstayed in the facility without their case being mentioned, those who are sick and the older person (s). With the two-day visit, the Chief Judge of Kano State, Deji Aboki has released 13 inmates who have committed various minor offences. She also directed magistrates to grant bail to other detainees or give them an accelerated hearing’, he said.

Penpushing also reports that he identified one of the freed inmates as Sabiu Miko, who narrated how he was arrested and remanded in the correctional facility in the last two years following an accusation of tricycle theft, adding that the inmate claimed to have confessed to the crime in the police facility under duress.

‘Subsequently, I randomly fingered one other person I claimed to have sold the tricycle to him after the police investigators compelled me and took me out to identify my accomplice’, Miko said in a voice recording shared by the judiciary’s spokesperson.

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