Flawed Justice System: Awaiting Trial Inmates’ Feeding Gulps N7.6bn Annually
In the last couple of years, overcrowding in Nigeria custodial centres has become a great burden on the justice system. In this investigation, JULIANA FRANCIS examines the staggering amount of taxpayers’ money spent on awaiting trial inmates, arising from poor administration of the justice system
by JULIANA FRANCIS
Apr 12, 2021
Kevin Odu, 32, has been in prison since February last year. He was arrested by proxy, arraigned and remanded for a crime allegedly committed by his kinsman who lived with him.
“He stole my neighbour’s laptop and generator and disappeared. I was arrested because police couldn’t find him,” Odu said.
Secretive organ trade that preys on the poor
HEALTH & SCIENCE
Trafficking for organs is real in the region. [Courtesy]]
Trafficking of Kenyans abroad for the purpose of harvesting their organs and illegal transplants in local hospitals are happening in secrecy.
A report by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on human trafficking in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi reveals that cases of trafficking for organs are real in the region.
IOM has engaged 1,916 people in the four countries, including 372 from Kenya, who have either been trafficked, are traffickers, or are at high risk of being trafficked.
A minority of trafficked respondents – 19 per cent in Kenya, 13 per cent in Uganda and 17 per cent in Tanzania – said they were aware of trafficking in human organs.
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THE STANDARD
OPINION
By Editorial | April 8th 2021
Trafficking in human body parts appears to have taken root in Eastern Africa. A report by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on human trafficking in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi has revealed cases of human trafficking for the purpose of harvesting their organs.
Another report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) shows that kidneys are the most trafficked organs in the world and are mainly harvested from the indigent in society.
The promise of good money and a chance to escape poverty in exchange for a kidney is enough to convince many to sell their internal body organs. This is often done illegally in a trade that is estimated to fetch up to Sh130 billion annually.
The abuse of mind altering substances enhances criminality
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has linked the current challenge of internal security in the country to uncontrolled influx and use of psychotropic medicines such as Tramadol and other chemicals. This much was corroborated by Sheik Ahmad Gumi after his interactions with Fulani bandits in Zamfara recently. “The challenge of internal security within the country was traced to the uncontrolled influx and use of psychotropic medicines such as tramadol and chemicals that could be diverted for terrorist activities,” the NAFDAC Director-General, Mojisola Adeyeye, warned in Abuja.