By Evelyn Usman

LAGOS—A NON-GOVERNMENTAL Organisation, NGO, “Stephen and Solomon Foundation,” yesterday in Lagos, said it had effected the release of no fewer than 3,000 awaiting trial inmates between April 2012 and February 2013.

The NGO which offers free legal aid to indigent inmates awaiting trial across prisons in the country, during an exhibition by inmates at the Female Security Prisons, Kirikiri, blamed the increasing number of awaiting trial inmates in prisons formations across the country for prisons’ congestion.

Founder of the organisation, Chief Gabriel Giwa-Amu, also blamed the Police for the high cases of awaiting trial inmates, lamenting that most of them were taken to court by the police without proper investigation and without the inmates having any understanding of the charges against them.