Femi Falana, a human rights lawyer, has asked a Federal High Court in Lagos to force President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly (NASS) to install monitoring devices, closed circuit television (CCTV), and other restraining measures in all of the country’s prisons.
In the suit, which has yet to be assigned to a judge, Falana also asks the court to compel the Federal Government to establish and maintain a fully equipped armed squad, as well as an intelligence and investigation unit, to improve security, surveillance, monitoring, intelligence gathering, and protection in all prisons.
The counsel asked the court to issue an order instructing the defendants to fully comply with Sections 28 (1), (2), and (3) of the Nigerian Correctional Service Act.
In the lawsuit, the petitioner joined the controller-general of the Nigerian Correctional Centre as a respondent.
Falana further requested that the court establish “whether the defendants are not legally required to supply monitoring equipment, closed circuit television, and other instruments of restriction in prisons in accordance with Section 28 (1) of the Nigerian Correctional Service Act.”
“Whether or whether the defendants are required by law to form and maintain a fully equipped armed squad, intelligence in prisons, in accordance with Section 28 (2) of the Nigerian Correctional Service Act.”
He also asked the court to “declare that the defendants are under a legal obligation to provide monitoring devices to protect, control, and safeguard prison activities, such as observatory towers, double perimeter walls, close circuit television, body scanners, e-monitoring devices, electrically activated alarm systems, and other instruments of restraint” under Section 28 (1), (2), and (3) of the Prisons Act.
Falana said in an affidavit testified to by one Ayodele Aribisala that in July 2022, terrorists raided the Kuje prisons and liberated approximately 600 detainees, including 64 Boko Haram fighters.
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