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Chidozie Ajokuji, a Nigerian man, has spent nine years in Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison, Lagos, for a crime he did not commit, according to Brownie, an X user and prison reforms advocate. He was jailed in 2014 after being arrested for robbery.
On Tuesday, Brownie said that Ajokuji, often referred to as Junior, was arrested in Lagos alongside three of his friends while charging his laptop in a friend’s house.
“Three years later, he is still incarcerated. A total of nine years of his life wasted. How can the innocent continue to rot away in prison? The main culprit is serving life imprisonment in maximum prison. Junior, Peter, Prosper and Abass are innocent for God’s sake,” she wrote.
“Look at how young he looked in this picture! Junior has grown into a man in prison. They’ve all lost something they can never recover. I would be less concerned if they were guilty of the crime [they were] accused [of], but these guys are innocent. Do you know how many innocent lives are languishing?”
She also stated that Junior and his friends are innocent because the real culprit of the robbery, one Hakeem, who robbed a lawyer of his car, has been identified and convicted.
She wrote: “The lawyer that was robbed feels like he’s god. The car that was robbed was given back to him, he even exonerated him in court that he didn’t see Junior and the other guys the day he was robbed but he saw Hakeem(culprit). These guys are about to go for a plea bargain.”
Junior has had about 40 court dates since his trial began in 2015, according to Brownie. In a 2020 tweet, she wrote that Junior was arrested by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) while the agency was looking for a criminal who had robbed a lawyer of his car.
