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The Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, has commissioned the first Court to be built in a prison premises under the State’s Rapid Justice System programme.With the commissioning of the High Court at the Olokuta Prison, Akure, Governor Mimiko, also promised to provide the prison with a clinic that would offer basic drugs for free.The Olokuta Court-in –Prison is the first in the series of the Ondo State programme to cater for the judiciary.At the commissioning ceremony which had many dignitaries in attendance, including the Deji of Akure, Oba Adebiyi Adesida , Governor Mimiko said that the provision of the court was one of his government’s way of decongesting the prisons.The Governor mentioned that the Olokuta Prison facility has the capacity for 160 inmates only, as against the 688 that are currently accommodated in it and added that with the court now brought within the prison, justice would be dispensed with promptly.Dr Mimiko noted that if violent criminals were kept intermittently under remand without the assurance of conclusion of their trials, it might jeopardise the safety of the society and stressed that efforts must be intensified to address the situation.According to him, his administration has taken measures to quicken dispensation of justice system and assured that all measures that would further assist the criminal justice would be put in place.
