r. Uwemedimo Nwoko is the Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Akwa Ibom State. In this interview, he spoke on remedies for victim of election violence, FoI Act and non-custodian sentencing, among others.How would you assess crime rate in Akwa Ibom State now, compared to when this administration came into office in 2015?
Basically, what have posed the biggest challenges for us in the implementation of the act is tradition and religion. Tradition in the sense that a lot of communities still don’t understand the basic rights of the child. So it requires a more vigorous education particularly of the rural populace to understand the basic needs of the child within the contest of the Nigerian Constitution and the Akwa Ibom State Child Rights Act.
We followed that case through and secure conviction against them. If you also remember, there was the case of a barber who was killed and cut into pieces. We also secured the conviction of those involved in the murder. Non- Constodian sentencing is gradually gaining traction in some climes in decongesting the prisons. What is your state doing in this direction?
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