This is where CAPIO’s achievements and various success stories are published.
Carmelite Prisoners’ Interest Organization has for the last six years sponsored inmates at Enugu State maximum security prison for the National Examination Council Examinations (NECO). This year, CAPIO sponsored a total number of 48 inmates for the exam. The successful candidates were selected from the top performing students who sat for the NECO mock examination. […]
Following in on the recent call for the abolition of the death penalty from the Nigerian justice system, CAPIO, in conjunction with the Irish Ambassador in Nigeria, led advocacy to the Governors of Enugu and Ebonyi States, for the release of prisoners on death row. A previous advocacy visit led by CAPIO and the Irish […]
In this edition of CAPIO’s success stories, Mr. Maduabuchi, who is a 32-year-old man, married with kids, was arrested on the allegation of kidnapping and armed robbery. Mr. Maduabuchi was remanded in custody for a full year without trial, in contravention of the extant criminal justice laws of Enugu State, including the ACJL. Sometime in […]
Through CAPIO’s legal advocacy programme, indigent prisoners who cannot afford the services of defense attorneys are provided free legal representation in court. The case of Mr. Ekenechukwu Ani is just one of numerous pathetic cases encountered in the course of CAPIO’s legal advocacy. Mr. Ekene was 26 when he was arrested for the murder of […]