FG To Release Prisoners In Mass From Kuje, Kirikiri, Others

FG is set to release prisoners in mass from Nigerian prisons.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Federal Government has said it is planning to release prisoners from various Correctional facilities across the country.

Sola Fasure, the media aide to the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, stated that the reason is to decongest the correctional facilities.

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Fasure, in a chat with The Punch, said the minister has written to the Nigerian Governors Forum to request a meeting to work out modalities to decongest the jails around the country.

He said Aregbesola would meet with state governors to agree on the mass release of at least 30 percent of convicts from correctional facilities across the country.

Fasure said that the meeting with the governors was necessary as more than 90 percent of the inmates were being held for contravening various state laws, noting that over 70 percent of the 75,635 inmates at present were awaiting trial.

He said that the federal offenders in the system were far fewer than 10 percent, adding that the bulk of people in custody were those who had run afoul of state laws.

Fasure said that they were therefore being kept under the legal jurisdiction of their respective states.

He added that the decongestion of the 253 custodial centres nationwide was necessary as some of the inmates have no reason to remain in custody.

He said, “The minister has written to the Governors Forum, but he has not met with them because they will have to communicate with him and give him a date.

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“He wrote to them with the request that he wants to meet with them, but he is yet to get a response. In other words, the meeting has not been held.”

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