The case involving over one hundred inmates who has stayed over ten years at Correctional centre in PortHarcourt without trial verse Commissioner of Police, Attorney General of Rivers State and Correctional Services continued on Friday October,14,2022.
Recall that a Non Governmental Organization, Legal Care Advocacy Foundation had filed the suit on behalf of the over 100 inmates requesting the inmates be released unconditionally or the state should bring out their advice from Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) having stayed in correctional centre for atleast ten years.
When the matter came up for hearing, the lead counsel for the applicants,C.I George will Esq informed the court that all parties have been served.
However, the Rivers State high court presided over by Justice Dagogo Jack observed that the 2nd Respondent(correctional services) was not rightly served.
Justice Dagogo Jack requested that the second respondent be served while the matter was adjourned to 17 November,2022 for hearing.