The Log in Our Eye: The Quiet Tragedy of Nigeria’s “Lost” Inmates by Lawson Akhigbe

The grim reality of the Nigerian justice system was laid bare recently in a devastating report by Arise News. In 2007, a 14-year-old boy named Gospel Kinani disappeared from Ogoniland, Rivers State. For nearly two decades, his family searched for him in vain; the profound grief even claimed the lives of both his parents. Eighteen years later, Gospel was finally found not dead, but alive, broken, and languishing inside the Port Harcourt Correctional Center at 33 years old.