The Chief Judge of Niger State, Justice Halima Ibrahim Abdulmalik has displayed the highest level of magnanimity to a teenager who is serving jail term at the Minna Remand Home as she is to sponsor his education to University level.
The Chief Judge also pledged the donation of N500,000. 00 to support the Suleja Medium Security Custodial Centre for their skills acquisition unit.
The kind gesture of the Chief Judge was extended to the Suleja Correctional centre during her visit to the facilities with the view to decongest the centre and she was impressed with the rehabilitation of the inmates for engaging in the skills.
Gabriel Silas was sentenced to three years in the correctional centre along with Isah Tanimu for an offence of criminal trespass and mischief and theft which contravened sections.228,327 and 348 of the penal code law.
Justice Halima Ibrahim Abdulmalik was at the Minna Children Remand home as part of her annual working visit to the correctional facilities across the state to decongest the centre.
During her visit to the remand home Tuesday, the Chief Judge was apparently moved with the remorseful disposition of Gabriel Silas who was in his early teenage years when he was sentenced.
She displayed a high level of empathy on the teenager whom she described his being in the remand home as an avoidable circumstance that he needed a support to be useful to the society.
“The circumstance that brought him to this place could be avoided if he has a good support from his mother. I can see talent in him. If he had a good support he will be useful to the society.
“You can even see how remorseful he has been since all these while. I have taken over his sponsorship of his education up to University education. I can’t just allow him to waste his life at his age.
“I will sponsor his education up to University level. He need support to put his talent in use.
I would not allow him to waste his life but to better his life to be useful to the society” Justice Halima Ibrahim Abdulmalik asserted in an emotional laden tune.
Additionally, Justice Halima Abdulmalik also released his jail mate Isah Tanimu who were convicted together with the pledge to pay part of their fine option.
During her visit to the children remand home, three other teenagers were released by the Chief Judge.
Speaking in an interview with journalists after the exercise, head of the Minna Remand home, Hajiya Hassana Yakubu appreciated the magnanimity of the Chief Judge for extending her kind gesture to the inmates.
Hajiya Hassana described the Chief Judge’s kind gesture to Gabriel Silas as unprecedented in the history of the Children Remand home.
Hajiya Hassana Yakubu described Gabriel Sillas as the most obedient inmate that always guide the rule and regulations guiding the remand home stating that he is always there in the room.
“He is the most obedient inmate we have in this house. He is very intelligent and very talented.
“He is already used to the house and he believe in himself that he cannot run to anywhere knowing fully well the consequence of escaping from custody.The Chief Judge has done what mother should do to her children, she added.
A total of fourteen inmates were kept at the Children Remand home out of which three were released with eleven remaining.
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