A group, Edo Civil Society Organizations(EDOCSO), has called for the overhauling of the Nigerian justice system to address the issues of overcrowding in the nation’s Correctional Centres.
Speaking on the theme: Our rights, our future, right now to mark the World Human Rights Day celebration in Benin City, the Coordinator General of the group, Comrade Omobude Agho, said his recent incarceration has shown that 80 percent of Nigerians are languishing in the nation’s correctional centres without trials.
He said those who spoke with him while in the Correctional Centre, told him that they could not provide the money requested for by the prosecuting officers, consequently, they were taken to court and remanded in the Correctional Centre.
Comrade Agho said the only way out is for the nation’s judicial system to be reviewed in order to address issues as they come and sentence anyone found guilty of a crime and free the innocent without allowing them to suffer unnecessarily.
Agho, while lamenting the hardship that has befallen Nigerians in the midst of abundant mineral resources, said the country has no reason to suffer if our political leaders have made judicious usage of them.
The Coordinator General of the group further blamed the nation’s political, religious and traditional leaders for their complacency and for not being able to speak truth to power to free Nigerians from all the avoidable hardship in the country.
He further decried the situation where the country’s money was stolen and starched in foreign countries which was recovered and stolen to be starched in the same banks and in the same countries and nothing is being done about it.
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