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The Headfort Foundation has given the assurance that inmates of Special Correctional Center<\/strong><\/a> for Girls, Idi Araba, Lagos, would get pro bono representation in court.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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The Executive Director of Headfort Foundation, Mrs Oluyemi Orija, gave the assurance in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Friday.<\/p>\n

Orija spoke on the sideline of a sensitisation workshop on Fundamental Human Rights for the inmates, titled, \u201cMy Rights, My Freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said that the foundation was an organisation of lawyers committed to giving pro bono legal services to vulnerable people in the society.<\/p>\n

\u201cHeadfort Foundation is here today to sensitise the girls on their fundamental human rights and also to take their cases.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is because some of them are facing different charges in court and they do not have legal representation.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, from my few minutes here and while conversing with the girls, it\u2019s obvious that they do not have legal representation and the reason is not far-fetched; it is because of poverty.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey cannot afford it and their parents cannot afford quality legal representation for them on their cases,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The executive director called for the collaboration of non-profits organisations to assist the inmates at the courts since they lack funds to prosecute their cases.<\/p>\n

According to Orija.\u00a0 the girl-child goes through a lot; many of them fall victims of domestic violence, slavery, rape and human trafficking.<\/p>\n

She advised girls who had fallen victims of violence to be hopeful and avail themselves of the free services offered by the foundation and its partners to seek justice.<\/p>\n

Mr Ugochukwu Agboeze, a Lawyer representing Public Interest Law Partnership (PILP). said that they shared\u00a0 lots of things in common with the Headfort Foundation.<\/p>\n

Agboeze said that PILP was happy to partner with Headfort foundation because of the impact they were making in the lives of the most abandoned in the society.<\/p>\n

He advised the inmates to be of good behaviour and be free from crime.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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