By Henry Ojelu
The Lagos State Excessive Courtroom sitting in Ikeja has ordered the rapid launch of 1 Mr. Sewedo Folorunsho, who has been awaiting trial for alleged homicide in Kirikiri jail for eight years with out trial.
In a judgment delivered on October 22, 2025, however obtained by Vanguard, yesterday, Justice Adenike Shonubi declared the detention illegal and a violation of the applicant’s basic rights to non-public liberty, dignity of human individual, and honest listening to as assured by the Structure.
The court docket consequently ordered Mr. Sewedo unconditional launch from custody and awarded N500,000 in damages in opposition to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police.
Sewedo by way of his counsel, Monday Ubani, SAN, had filed a basic rights enforcement go well with in opposition to the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, the Legal professional Normal of Lagos State, and the Deputy Controller of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Lagos.
Courtroom paperwork confirmed that the applicant was arrested by the Police in 2012, over allegation of homicide and detained in a Police cell earlier than being arraigned in 2017, earlier than the Ebute Metta Justice of the Peace court docket on a holding cost. Nonetheless, no data was filed earlier than the Lagos Excessive Courtroom to begin his trial, resulting in his continued detention on the jail facility from 2017 till the judgment date.
Justice Shonubi held that the extended detention with out trial contravened constitutional provisions and amounted to an illegal deprivation of liberty.
Reacting to the judgment, the applicant’s counsel, Ubani, SAN, recommended the court docket for upholding the rule of regulation. He was represented in court docket by Mr. Iwowo Anthony, who adopted the written handle of the appliance on behalf of the agency.
The court docket’s order has been transmitted to the prisons authorities for compliance.
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