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.
Una wan use indirectly release all those Terrorist Shekeau was asking GEJ to release for him abi.....
ReplyDeleteIt is a good development. so as to give chances for new inmates.if they refuse to return the money they stole
ReplyDeletehmm a man of the people.
ReplyDeleteSo passionate about the Nigerian people, especially the down trodden.
Peace be on to you.
No enemy will stop your good plans for the good people of Nigeria.
May Allah see you through.
There is need for case review among prison inmates to ensure justice is served fairly.
ReplyDeleteWhile criminals must not be allowed to go free, minor offences and cases lacking evidence for trial should be disposed.
The looters of the country's treasury are enjoying their mansions in London and Switzerland whereas minor offenders are languishing in prisons across the country. That's how our democracy works.
ReplyDeleteBuhari, boko haram both started with a B..you want to release boko haram members GEJ refuse to release...buhari thinks we are fools
ReplyDeleteah me I think Buhari is trying to decongest the prisons to give room to looters who he will soon throw into prison :D
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