Irinyemi Hope Temitope a student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko
The Akungba law clinic has paid four (4) visits to three different prisons so as to grant access to justice to the inmates, in which I have been an active participant.
We were able to attend to a good number of inmates and I felt joyful to have played a role in adding access to l justice.
But what really caught my interest in the cause of following up the cases of the inmates was the role the record department play in enabling access to justice.
It was unimaginable to hear the record department claim not to have an inmates record. How then was he detained in your custody? How on earth can the prison claim not to know the where about of an inmate file, and yet nothing is done about it?
Over five (5) case files could not be found, and each time we contact the prison for their record so as to know the charge number, offence committed, court in which the inmate was arraigned or the next date of adjournment, what we get is: we are still on it, no details yet.
Really!!! And those inmate's are kept there for months, ignorance of the nonchalant attitudes of the prison warders towards their attainment of justice.
Thank God we were able to press further and some of those files are finally coming into limelight.
In the cause of all this, I have come to realize that Record Keeping is the first thing to consider when considering access to justice.
Thank you NULAI and OSIWA for this wonderful exposure.
We were able to attend to a good number of inmates and I felt joyful to have played a role in adding access to l justice.
But what really caught my interest in the cause of following up the cases of the inmates was the role the record department play in enabling access to justice.
It was unimaginable to hear the record department claim not to have an inmates record. How then was he detained in your custody? How on earth can the prison claim not to know the where about of an inmate file, and yet nothing is done about it?
Over five (5) case files could not be found, and each time we contact the prison for their record so as to know the charge number, offence committed, court in which the inmate was arraigned or the next date of adjournment, what we get is: we are still on it, no details yet.
Really!!! And those inmate's are kept there for months, ignorance of the nonchalant attitudes of the prison warders towards their attainment of justice.
Thank God we were able to press further and some of those files are finally coming into limelight.
In the cause of all this, I have come to realize that Record Keeping is the first thing to consider when considering access to justice.
Thank you NULAI and OSIWA for this wonderful exposure.
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