{"id":100747,"date":"2023-11-13T21:46:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T20:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/3-men-released-after-6-years-in-detention-without-trial"},"modified":"2023-11-14T00:01:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T23:01:08","slug":"3-men-released-after-6-years-in-detention-without-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/3-men-released-after-6-years-in-detention-without-trial","title":{"rendered":"3 men released after 6 years in detention without trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>An Ikeja High Court on Monday released three men, Peter Edialu, Godspower Friday, and Bayo Segun, after being in custody for about six years without trial.<\/p>\n<p>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the men, first arrested and charged in 2018 and 2019, were facing charges bordering on sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Oyindamola Ogala, in separate judgements in the cases, ordered that \u201cthe applicants should be released and discharged forthwith if there are no pending matters in other courts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ben Abraham, the counsel to the applicants, said: \u201cThe High Court here in Lagos granted the enforcement of the fundamental rights of these three applicants, which we brought before the courts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have been in detention for about six years. The oldest of them had been in Kirikiri Correctional Medium Custodial Centre since 2018 for sexual offences and was awaiting the Department of Public Prosecutions\u2019 advice. But nothing has happened since then.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we got to the custodial centre and saw their plight\u2014that they were not even before any courts or having the opportunity to defend themselves\u2014we picked up their cases earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, the court upheld our submissions and application and directed that they be immediately and unconditionally released from custody after about six years without trial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abraham added that the cases were just a few of the very sad and unfortunate set of circumstances facing the judicial system.<\/p>\n<p>The applicants had sued the Attorney-General of Lagos State, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, and the correctional services.<\/p>\n<p>The state prosecution, representing the first respondent in the matter, did not object to the motion papers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. An Ikeja High Court on Monday released three men, Peter Edialu, Godspower Friday, and Bayo Segun, after being in custody for about six years without trial. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the men, first arrested and charged in 2018 and 2019, were facing charges bordering on sexual assault. Justice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":100746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,254],"class_list":["post-100747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>3 men released after 6 years in detention without trial - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An Ikeja High Court on Monday released three men, Peter Edialu, Godspower Friday, and Bayo Segun, after being in custody ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/3-men-released-after-6-years-in-detention-without-trial\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"3 men released after 6 years in detention without trial\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An Ikeja High Court on Monday released three men, Peter Edialu, Godspower Friday, and Bayo Segun, after being in custody ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/3-men-released-after-6-years-in-detention-without-trial\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-13T20:46:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-11-13T23:01:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/sm_1699900106.378974.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"719\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/3-men-released-after-6-years-in-detention-without-trial#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/3-men-released-after-6-years-in-detention-without-trial\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"3 men released after 6 years in detention without trial\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-13T20:46:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-11-13T23:01:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/3-men-released-after-6-years-in-detention-without-trial\"},\"wordCount\":285,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/3-men-released-after-6-years-in-detention-without-trial#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/sm_1699900106.378974.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/3-men-released-after-6-years-in-detention-without-trial#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/3-men-released-after-6-years-in-detention-without-trial\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/3-men-released-after-6-years-in-detention-without-trial\",\"name\":\"3 men released after 6 years in detention without trial - 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