In the quest for the on-going NULAI project, a team of the
UNILORIN LAW CLINIC visited various places such as, Director of Public Prosecution , visitation
to Courts, Prisons(OKEKURA maximum
security prison AND MANDALA medium security Prisons) and the likes in Kwara
State, ilorin.
If indeed, I must be candid,
when this question is thrown to clinicians who participated in the
ongoing NULAI/OSIWA's project 2018, surely,
responses would be distinct from one and another because as a matter of
fact, we can look at same place but see
differently. I will like to share what i have gathered and garnered as a
clinician during the project.
UNILORIN LAW CLINIC visited
MANDALA PRISON recently. An
interview session was conducted for some of the inmates within the scope of
NULAI/OSIWA PROJECT 2018.
Equally, I was opportune
to interview some detainees who made the
interview arduous by being hissing- sid clients (says one thing and denies it).
It was difficult getting information as regards their date of arrest, address
and other vital issues.
And such, I
encountered series of problems as regards
communication barriers during the interview. Due to the fact that I am
bi- lingual, able to communicate both in English and Yoruba language, I could overcome this
challenge. Secondly, it was discovered that many inmates are embittered with
the rate some Lawyers take up their cases and have them abandoned leaving them
at the mercy of those who offer legal aid to the indigent members of the
society like the Law Clinic.
Thirdly, some of the inmates are kept in Prison custody for
malicious intent. Some have it that the Complaints lose interest in the case
yet they languish in Prison with their cases forgotten. Based on this, I have
learnt that some complainants need to be contacted in handling of some cases,
negotiate and have them counselled, by
so doing, justice will be achieved for the pre- trial detainees.
Conclusively however,
this is a great platform for me to have known some major part of
procedural Laws and it is an undisputable fact that Procedural Law is the life
wire of the substantive law.
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