Nigerian prisoners now have the right to vote during elections

Justice Mohammed Lima of the Federal High Court in Benin, Edo State, yesterday decided that detainees of all detainment facilities allover Nigeria have the right to vote in all decisions led in the nation.

The suit was documented by Victor Emenuwe, Onome Inaye, Kabiru Abu, Osagie Iyekepolor, Modugu Odion (for and for prisoners of Nigeria Prisons) against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Prisons Service.

The plaintiffs had in a corrected Originating Summons, asked the court to determine “whether having respects to the procurements of area 25 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, as changed in 2011, and segment 12 (1) of the Electoral Act 2010, the offended parties are not qualified to be enlisted as voters by the first Defendants.”