Imo Attorney General urges police to record confessional statements on video

By Emmanuel Iheaka

OWERRI — The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Imo State, Barr. Paul Obinatu, has called connected the Nigeria Police Force to afloat instrumentality Section 18 of the Imo State Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL), which provides that confessional statements should beryllium recorded connected video oregon made successful the beingness of a backstage ineligible practitioner.

Obinatu made the telephone connected Monday during a two-day store connected Capacity Strengthening for Policing, Law Enforcement, and Judicial Stakeholders connected the Administration of Criminal Justice Law successful Imo State, organized by the CLEEN Foundation.

The lawsuit brought unneurotic participants from the judiciary, the Nigeria Police Force, the Nigerian Correctional Service, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), and civilian nine organizations.

Represented by the State Solicitor-General, Mrs. Gloria Egwuagu, the Attorney General noted that nonaccomplishment to comply with the proviso often undermines the admissibility of confessional statements during trial.

He described the ACJL arsenic the bedrock of effectual justness medication successful the authorities and urged each applicable stakeholders to guarantee strict adherence to its provisions.

In his remarks, the Commissioner of Police, CP Aboki Danjuma, represented by Mr. Peter Agbo, said the store was agelong overdue and expressed optimism that its result would fortify collaboration betwixt the police, the correctional service, and the judiciary.

Also speaking, the Comptroller of Correctional Service successful the state, Mr. Michael Okorie, stated that due implementation of the ACJL would assistance trim congestion successful correctional facilities.

Earlier successful his invited address, the Acting Executive Director of CLEEN Foundation, Mr. Peter Maduoma, said the store was portion of a nationwide programme covering 12 states.

He explained that the nonsubjective was to deepen knowing of the ACJL, heighten inter-agency collaboration, and make strategies to tackle challenges specified arsenic proceedings delays, custodial congestion, and rights violations.

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