Nine heavily pregnant women and eight babies are among 222 inmates in the female section of Kirikiri prisons. This was disclosed by Omotilewa Ibirogba, the director, Directorate of Citizens Rights (DCR) in a chat with newsmen on Thursday, March 24.
According to her, the babies would be taken from their mothers and handed over to their appointed relations, once they attain 24 months, The Nation reports.
Ibirogba who led an eight-man team of her department on a welfare check to the prisons and to donate toiletries, said the Lagos state government is making effort to decongest the prisons.
It was gathered that the Kirikiri prison which is over populated, has 175 awaiting trials, 43 convicted persons, two on life imprisonment, while the remaining two are condemned inmates.
Although Ibirogba stated that most of the inmates have legal representations and have been granted bails, to perfect such bail conditions has been the problem.
directorate to provide free legal services to those whose cases are not going on well in the court while applications would be filed in courts to vary bail conditions for those already granted bail by the courts. In her visit to the prison, Ibirogba said the inmates looked neat, healthy, well fed and have no rashes on their body contrary to what it used to be in the past.
“I am sure they now take very good care of them”, she added
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