Rivers CJ Grants 184 Inmates Pardon

As part of efforts to decongest the correctional centres across the state, the Rivers State Chief Judge, Justice Simeon Chibuzor Amadi has granted pardon to 184 inmates across the three correctional centers in the state.
The 184 inmates granted pardon were also disharged and acquinted from their offences.
Speaking at the close of the two-day goal delivery exercise at the Port Harcourt Maximum Correctional Centre, last Friday, the state chief judge who was represented at the occasion by the Deputy Chief Registrar (Litigation), Chief Magisterate Meneme Friday Poromon, said the exercise was a prelude to the 2022/2023 state legal year ceremony.
According to him, “On 22nd of this month, I, the state chief judge willl embark on another goal delivery exercise as activities put together to herald the 2022/2023 legal year in the state”.
Justice Amadi advised the lucky freed inmates to turn a new leaf of life and be responsible, adding that the gesture was part of the new measures put in place to reform the judiciary system and the administration of criminal justice, which hitherto, had been on paper but now activated and reinvigorated.
He assured that the state Judiciary would do much despite the enormous challenges confronting it to ensure that the justice delivery service kept space with the global practices.
Justice Amadi averred that it was not possible for all the inmates to be attended at the same time due to the limited of time but assured that more of the exercise will be conducted in other to decongest the Correctional Centre, and thanked the officials of the service for their support.
Also speaking, the state Comptroller of the Prison, Mr Felix Lawrence, who spoke through the Chief Superintendent of Correction, Magnus Uchegbu, thanked the chief judge of the for the exercise and advised the released inmates to be responsible and good citizens.
The goal delivery exercise reports that the freed inmates were those standing trial on minor case, those whose case have not been going on in the court as well as those inmates who have over stayed the custody.

By: Akujobi Amadi