Nigeria, April 3 -- The measure will help reduce the alarming number of Awaiting Trial Persons, ATPS, in correctional centres.

This is according to the State Coordinator of Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption, RoLAC programme, Josephine Onah, who spoke with a TNC correspondent in Awka, Anambra State Capital, on the situation at the Correctional Centres across the state.

A recent survey by an independent group, the Monitor, showed that across the correctional centres in the state, namely Awka, Onitsha, and Ekwulobia, the number of ATPs far outweighs that of convicts.

According to Onah, decongesting the correctional centres is a major reform that the RoLAC is working on to improve the administration of criminal justice delivery in the state....