Members of the Boko Haram Sect
No fewer than 20 Boko Haram suspects
awaiting trial in Kuje Prison, Abuja on Wednesday protested against the
delay in their trial.
The inmates, who expressed their
displeasure to the Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, when he visited the
prison, claimed they had been in detention for a period of one year
without trial.
The Boko Haram suspects were arrested in Kano and Borno states on the suspicion of having links with the sect.
They told the minister to provide additional vehicles to the Kuje Prisons to facilitate movement of inmates to court for trial.
Speaking on behalf of other inmates, an
inmate who did not disclose his name, said he has spent eight year in
the prison, and blamed the slow justice delivery system on the
congestion in the nation’s prisons.
He said he had been to court for more than 57 times within the period.
The inmate therefore urged the minister
to use his power to fast track the justice system in the country, adding
that “not all inmates in the prison are criminals.”
Moro assured the inmates that the Federal
Government was working on modalities to improve on the justice system
by establishing a special trial court within the prison environment.
Findings indicate that the facility which housed about 560 inmates has two vehicles to convey inmates to court.