{"id":329310,"date":"2024-07-02T06:41:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T05:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=329310"},"modified":"2024-07-02T06:42:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T05:42:28","slug":"lagos-court-releases-man-after-15-years-incarceration-without-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/07\/02\/lagos-court-releases-man-after-15-years-incarceration-without-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos: Court releases man after 15 years incarceration without trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong> Justice Oyindamola Ogala gave the order while ruling in a fundamental rights enforcement suit marked No: D\/16997MFHR\/24 filed by Adeshina\u2019s counsel, Ben Okeke.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/07\/01\/cholera-outbreak-hits-kirikiri-prison-in-lagos\/\">Lagos State<\/a>, one Kazeen Adeshina has regained his freedom after spending 15 years behind bars without charge or trial.<\/p>\n<p>The release of Adeshina from correctional facility was orddred on Monday by an Ikeja high court.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Oyindamola Ogala gave the order while ruling in a fundamental rights enforcement suit marked No: D\/16997MFHR\/24 filed by Adeshina\u2019s counsel, Ben Okeke, NAN reports.<\/p>\n<p>Ogala, in her ruling, averred that the arrest and continued detention of Adeshina in the custody of the Medium Correctional Centre, Kirikiri, Lagos without a trial was wrong, unlawful and unjustifiable.<\/p>\n<p>She added that it was a gross violation of the applicant\u2019s fundamental human rights as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification Enforcement Act, Cap.10.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs afore-stated, there is unchallenged fact that this applicant has remained in custody for about 15 years and is yet to be arraigned before a court of competent jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe presumption of innocence enshrined in our constitution remains sacrosanct and it is indeed a travesty of justice for this to occur without administration of criminal justice, no matter where the delay emanates from.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCounsel to the first respondent has exhibited correspondence to the police to transfer the suspect for arraignment since 2003 which has remained unattended to and it appears that this applicant has fallen through the cracks and thus remained in custody for such years without trial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe presumption of innocence in our constitution remains sacrosanct and it is clear to this court that no good cause has been exhibited necessitating the continued remand of the applicant and therefore this court finds that the applicant is entitled to the declaratory order sought,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The judge, thereafter, ordered the immediate and unconditional release of the applicant from the custody of the Kirikiri Medium Correctional Centre.<\/p>\n<p>The applicant\u2019s counsel, Okeke, had filed the suit against the Lagos state attorney-general, the commissioner of police and the Controller, Nigerian Correctional Service, Lagos state as first to third respondents, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The applicant had prayed the court for a declaration that the arrest and continued detention of Adeshina in custody without a formal charge or trial was wrongful, illegal, unjustifiable and a gross violation of the applicant\u2019s fundamental human rights.<\/p>\n<p>The applicant\u2019s counsel said: \u201cAn order directing the immediate and unconditional release of the applicant from the custody of the third respondent, Medium Correctional Centre, Kirikiri Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn injunction restraining the respondents, their agents or privies from further breach of the applicants\u2019 fundamental human rights as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria as amended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn order admitting the applicant to bail pending his arraignment in court and for such further or other orders as this Honourable Court may deem fit to make in the circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe applicant filed in support of the application, the affidavit of urgency of six paragraphs as well as a supporting affidavit of 15 paragraphs deposed to by Joe Ameh, the Executive Coordinator in the office of Zarephath Aid dated March 8.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The applicant\u2019s counsel referred the court to the provisions of Section 35 (1) of the Constitution and submitted that it was inferable that whenever a deprivation of right to personal liberty is sought pursuant thereto, such deprivation must satisfy two conditions to satisfy the approval of the constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Oyindamola Ogala gave the order while ruling in a fundamental rights enforcement suit marked No: D\/16997MFHR\/24 filed by Adeshina\u2019s counsel, Ben Okeke. 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