Justice G. O. Ollor delivered the judgment after a lawyer and his organization known as ‘’Access To Freedom International’ instituted a fundamental human rights case against the Commissioner of Police, Attorney General, Comptroller of Prisons Rivers State command, and Chief registrar of Rivers State Judiciary.
Justice Ollor in his judgment also ordered the four defendants in the case to pay N100,000 to each of the inmates for their continued detention and breach of their fundamental human rights.
The court held that the lawyer and the organization which instituted the case for the inmates are legally bound to do so even as it described the arguments of the defendants as based on technicalities that are not supported by known law.
Nasiru Ibiloye who is Counsel to the inmates, in an interview with our correspondent outside the courtroom explained their reasons for approaching the court on behalf of the inmates and the reasons for award of compensation to the inmates.
He however suggested possible ways resolving the issues of congestion at the Port Harcourt Correctional Centre.
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