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Sunday Jamil Released from Ikoyi Custodial Centre

Updated: Jan 12, 2021

The ELA Initiative secures the release of Sunday Jamil.

L-R: Head, Legal Kenechukwu Osuji Esq with Sunday Jamil after the latter visited the office of The ELA Initiative immediately after his release from Prison

 

Sunday Jamil is a 27 year-old Nigerian vulcanizer, he plies his trade in Ebute-Metta, Lagos State. He was arrested by the Nigerian Police Force on the 9th of August 2019 and was subsequently remanded in the Ikoyi Custodial Center.



His case had come up in court but was adjourned severally due to his inability to afford the services of a legal practitioner. The ELA Initiative interviewed him on the 18th day of January at the Ikoyi Custodial Centre and the Legal Team decided to take up his case.



On the 16th of March 2020, the Court upheld the arguments of our Legal Team and struck out the case against Sunday Jamil; he regained his freedom after spending over seven (7) months in Prison.

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