Miss Beauty Obi, an 18-year-old mother of a two week old baby, an inmate of Warri Custodial Centre, popularly known as Okere Prison, has been granted bail by the Chief Judge of Delta State, Hon. Justice Tessy Diai, on compassionate grounds.
Following an appeal from the Deputy Controller of the Warri Custodial Centre, Mr. Edo Joseph Lucky, Justice Diai had compassion on Beauty Obi, who delivered her baby two weeks ago through caesarean section.
Miss Obi was admitted to the Custodial Centre while she was pregnant.
When due for delivery, she was taken to the Warri Central Hospital, where she gave birth through caesarean section. The little child was placed in an incubator for one week before being reunited with the mother in custody.
Mr. Lucky appealed to the Chief Judge to grant her bail to enable her visit her parents for proper care, citing that the prison authority spent N1,000 per hour for the one week the child was in the incubator.
Justice Diai passionately assisted Beauty Obi with the sum of N20,000 and granted her bail in the sum of N250,000 with one surety in like sum, while the surety, who must be resident within the jurisdiction of the trial court, should depose to an affidavit of means and provide his national identity card NIN.
The 18-year-old mother, who hails from Obingwa in Imo State, while thanking the Chief Judge for the financial assistance, narrated the circumstances that brought her to the Custodial Centre, saying that the police arrested her and the boyfriend at a location where he was about to sell a stolen phone.
The teenage mother, claimed that she was unaware of how her man got the phone, just as she maintained that she was innocent of the armed robbery charge slammed against her.
Out of the 539 warrants of inmates reviewed, the Chief Judge also discharged five, stating that those released were based on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions, following their findings that those people had no case to answer.
Among them were Lofore Difference, 37; Innocent Okpaghe, 37; Umukoro Kingsley, 51; and Chenago Wisdom, 29, who were charged with various offences ranging from armed robbery, kidnapping and murder.
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