By Sunny A Sunny
The Anambra State Chief Judge, Justice Onochie Anyachebelu has decried the incidents of missing case files urging all involved in the justice sector to be vigilant and sit up.
The Judge gave the warning during the quarterly inspection visit to Correctional facilities in the State.
He was accompanied by the Assistant Controller General of Corrections Zone G, Benin City, in charge of Edo, Delta, Anambra, Enugu and Ebonyi States, Friday Ovie.
During the inspection visits several cases were reviewed and three inmates were set free.
The three persons in detention at the Awka Custodial Center who were lucky to regain freedom were one Chukwuemeka Ochife, whose defence lawyer told the court that he has been in detention for over a year without any charge preferred against him; twenty-eight-year-old Richard Ufuo, who has spent over five years over alleged rape allegation and nineteen-year-old Uchenna Okafor, who has spent four years and seven months in detention without any charge filed against him.
Justice Anyachebelu stated that the routine visits help to look into awaiting trial cases, cases involving juveniles, very elderly men and women, the sick and those whose cases have been stalled, adding that a lot has been achieved in terms of decongesting correctional facilities in this direction.
