{"id":75643,"date":"2025-09-25T05:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75643"},"modified":"2025-09-25T05:31:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:31:00","slug":"fct-chief-judge-releases-35-awaiting-trial-inmates-in-keffi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/25\/fct-chief-judge-releases-35-awaiting-trial-inmates-in-keffi\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Chief Judge Releases 35 Awaiting-Trial Inmates in Keffi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Justice Husseini Baba-Yusuf, on Tuesday ordered the release of 35 inmates awaiting trial at the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Keffi, in Nasarawa State.<\/p>\n<p>Those freed included 33 men and two women. Justice Baba-Yusuf explained that the visit was part of efforts to ensure that individuals who should not remain in detention are granted timely freedom.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that many inmates had been held unnecessarily and emphasized that the exercise was aimed at correcting such injustices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 35 persons released today had no reason to continue in confinement,\u201d he said, describing the intervention as a significant step toward justice.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Judge added that such custodial visits would be conducted regularly to prevent undue suffering of awaiting-trial inmates.<\/p>\n<p>He also directed the Director in charge of magistrates to strengthen supervisory oversight to ensure cases are handled diligently and without delay.<\/p>\n<p>Baba-Yusuf further urged FCT magistrates to adopt more efficient case management practices so that trials move faster and inmates gain clarity about their legal status in good time.<\/p>\n<p>During the visit, Miss Cynthia Onyeka, Programme Officer of the Public and Private Development Center (PPDC), a civil society organisation, commended the Chief Judge for dedicating time to inspect custodial facilities and address inmates\u2019 concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Justice Husseini Baba-Yusuf, on Tuesday ordered the release of 35 inmates awaiting trial at the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Keffi, in Nasarawa State. Those freed included 33 men and two women. Justice Baba-Yusuf explained that the visit was part of efforts to ensure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":75644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75645,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75643\/revisions\/75645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}