Kogi Chief Judge, Nasir Ajanah, has discharged and acquitted one Gide Garba illegally detained as an Awaiting Trial Inmate (ATM) in the Kabba Federal Prisons.
He also granted bail to another ATM Husseini Embiga also an inmate illegally detained in the same prisons.
Ajanah granted the unconditional release of Garba while reviewing cases of 17 awaiting trial inmates in the prisons on Saturday.
He said the two accused should not ordinarily be in remand as their offences did not warrant such.
The Chief Judge said Garba (aka Shingee), was charged with criminal conspiracy, belonging to a gang of thieves and kidnappers but was dumped in the prison.
He was not taken before any court of competent jurisdiction for five months as required under the constitution.
“I am therefore left with no choice than to order for his immediate release from detention…
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