President Muhammadu Buhari has directed state governors across the country to ensure the reduction of the number of prison inmates in their various states.
Kaduna State Governor Malam Nasir el-Rufai, who disclosed this while on a working visit to the Kaduna convict prison, said the president’s directive was in the spirit of decongesting the prisons across the country.
El-Rufai said, “Our leader, President Muhammadu Buhari, has directed all governors to visit prisons and ensure that we reduce to the barest minimum those that have spent many years awaiting trial in our courts.
“It is injustice for a person to be kept for a long time in the name of awaiting trial. This is why President Buhari directed all governors to undertake such visits so that, working together with the Ministry of Justices and the Prison authorities, we’ll ensure we do something about it.”
He assured that the state government, despite its financial challenges, would do its best to ensure that the people prison for wrong reasons and are awaiting trial get justice.
Receiving the governor, the state controller of prison, Mr. Abubakar Garba, noted that the convict prison, established in 1915 with the capacity of 547, is now housing over 1,000 inmates.
Disclosing that about 114 inmates were condemned criminals, with 11 of them citizens of Kaduna State, he appealed to the governor to commute the death sentences of 11 inmates of Kaduna State origin to life imprisonment.
He also revealed that the prison had only two functional vans for conveying about 800 awaiting trial inmates, which he said, portends danger to people of the state.
culled from the leadership online.
Some people heart go somersault on hearing this news..LMAO
BTW So many politicians are abroad oh......All to relax and watch things with side eyes..lol
So many people in prisons without being trial or case. Nice move PMB
ReplyDeleteThat's so nice to hear, if it will be carried out
ReplyDeleteLmao.....some BP don rise already
ReplyDeleteAs in ehn.... decongest ready to house the real criminals. Hehehe!!!
Deletegood to know
ReplyDelete#GODWIN™
nice move
ReplyDeleteTo make enough room for corrupt politicians under d past administrations n former public office holders....madam 'too pretty to be corrupt' , former governors n ministers,be scared!
DeleteHahahhahahaahah chooo stella ,the fear of buhari is the beginning of wisdom,he might not be as tough as they think anyway ,his old and has been retired from the military long time ago ,all i want is change change
ReplyDeleteDey there dey laff. He's decongesting the prisons in readiness for new residents.
DeleteNice move GMB, seriously I see this man working well to make Nigeria better
ReplyDeleteI hope this people really follow this up. So many innocent people in there some have not even been taken to court some just once and they are still in prisons with no trail date in sight. God help us in Nigeria
ReplyDeleteNice move PMB
ReplyDeleteGood moves! So mny innocent ones been hld dere 4 yrs all in d name of awaiting trial.
ReplyDeleteI hope they don't mistakenly release those evil ones dat will den come out and cause havoc oh
ReplyDeleteTrue talk. Hope those hard criminals or rather those charged with serious allegations like murder and armed robbery stay locked up in the "zoo". Now, this directive makes sense for lighter offences when weighed against peoples liberties and the public's safety.
DeleteThis is good new. Mr president please also direct all state governor owing their workers to pay. Especially pensioners in Edo state. They have not been paids since April.
ReplyDeleteExactly. That's the most important thing right now. Pay salaries biko.
DeleteNice one...they need to decongest them so there would enough space for these criminal politicians..awon ole! GMB keep it up man.
ReplyDeleteMaking enuf space For some politicians, eheheheheh! Baba bu bu so on point
ReplyDeleteAwwwww! Thanks PMB. *hugs & kisses*
ReplyDeleteI love this!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is good. But am sure many Governors will be bribed to favour some and still leave some dia especially those d politicians wrongly blackmailed to avoid being hunted.
ReplyDeleteAs they reduce the number of inmates there...it will be nice to also renovate.
ReplyDeleteI heard that most prisons in Nigeria are not a sight to behold.
Hmmmm,abeg no release BOKO HARAM boys o.hmmmmmmmm
ReplyDeleteLol he is making rooms available for them all at least they should serve part of injustice they melted on Nigerians.
ReplyDeleteSDK no hiding place for any of them because Nigeria government have extradition treaty with most of those country and PMB is in good relationship with both British and America government.
Is our president trying to make enough space in d prisons for people he wld prosecute?...... Just saying!!!
ReplyDeleteok decongest for the real criminals
ReplyDeleteGood to know
ReplyDeleteDecongesting d Prisons for new inmates???
ReplyDeleteLMAO
Nice move my presido
ReplyDeleteHe shld build another big one in between Zamfara n Sokoto States near that Sahara desert look alike for big thieves.
ReplyDeleteLol @ Mao Akuh"s comment!!!!!
ReplyDeleteMy Bubu is working
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