Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has held a gathering with the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), on steps to be taken to make sure the decongestion of correctional centres (previously prisons) in Nigeria.
This is coming three days after inmates on the Kaduna Correctional Centre tried a jailbreak following the worldwide outbreak of Coronavirus.
The assembly was additionally attended by the Chief Judge of FCT, Justice I.U Bello.
“Minister of Interior, Ogbeni @raufaregbesola held a midnight assembly on the method and process to radically decongest @CorrectionsNg’s custodial centres with AGF and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami; Chief Judge of FCT, Justice I.U Bello and different authorities officers,” a tweet by the Ministry of Interior reads.
I held a midnight meeting on the process and procedure to radically decongest @CorrectionsNgâs custodial centres with Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami; Chief Judge of FCT, Justice I.U Bello and other government officials. pic.twitter.com/EsoisGTs38
— Rauf Aregbesola (@raufaregbesola) April 3, 2020
The minister has beforehand held comparable conferences to deliberate on the right way to handle the custodial centres.
Recall that 5 inmates on the Kirikiri Correctional Centre died of electrocution, which investigation by the Controller-General of the Nigeria Correctional Service, Ja’afaru Ahmed, revealed that the incident was attributable to overpopulation of the correctional centre.
Civil society organisations are additionally calling on the federal government to make sure the decongestion of correctional centres and police cells to include the unfold of the virus.
Currently, the nation has 74,127 inmates in 244 centres throughout the nation with 52,226 awaiting trial.
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