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LEDAP secures minor’s freedom
Access to Justice (A2J) has condemned the infliction of the death penalty on convicts, given the vulnerabilities and frailties of Nigeria’s judicial system. x
According to the group, the punishment is both extreme and its sanctions irreversible after it is executed, even when errors are afterwards discovered.
This coming after the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, stated during the official commissioning of Osun State command headquarters of a correctional office complex in Osogbo that out of 68,747 inmates currently housed in correctional facilities nationwide, 50, 992 of them are awaiting trial, while 17,755 have been convicted and serving sentences.