Forty-eight prisoners who are awaiting trial at the Ikoyi Prisons have passed the November/December 2013 General Certificate of Examination (GCE).
Deputy Controller of Prisons, Mr. Emmanuel Bamidele, who made the disclosure on Monday while receiving members of the Ikeja Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), said 54 other inmates also...
wrote the examination but were unsuccessful.
“When they finally regain their freedom, they can seek admission into any university of their choice, since they are awaiting trial,” Bamidele told the NBA members, who were visiting the prison to present gifts to the inmates as part of activities marking the 2014 Law Week.
Chairman of NBA Ikeja, Mr. Monday Ubani, assured the awaiting-trial inmates that they are only a few months away from their freedom, as Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Ayotunde Phillips, would soon visit the prison to grant them parole.
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