Renowned human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has urged the Interior Minister, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo to review the plan of paying the court fines for four thousand convicts with five hundred million naira.
Falana advised Tunji-Ojo to rather use the fund earmarked for that purpose in seeking the welfare of the inmates at their various correctional centres across the federation.
The senior lawyer, however, suggested that the minister should request that President Bola Tinubu and the other thirty-six governors use their prerogative mercy to pardon the convicts in order to decongest the correctional facilities.
Falana made this known in a statement titled ‘Interior Minister should review plan to pay fines of five hundred million’ naira which he signed as the Chairman, Alliance on Surviving Covid 19 and Beyond (ASCAB) on Sunday.
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