FG To Spend N22.44B on Feeding Inmates
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The Federal Government on Thursday revealed that Nigeria will spend N22.4 billion feeding inmates in correctional centres nationwide.
This is according to the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Dr Shuaib Belgore, who disclosed this at a two-day High Conference on Decongestion and Corrections Management in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
Belgore stated that the fund is budgeted for in the 2023 Appropriation Act.
He said that there has been a steady rise in the population of the custodial centres with at least 80% of the inmates awaiting trial.
According to him, there are 244 custodial centres nationwide, with a 75,507-inmate population, thereby leading to 82 of them being overcrowded.
The total number of male inmates is 73,821 and female 1,686 female inmates, he noted.
Out of the 75,507 inmates, 52,436 are awaiting trial while 23,071 are convicted persons, with 3,322 as condemned inmates on death row.
The Federal Government on Thursday revealed that Nigeria will spend N22.4 billion feeding inmates in correctional centres nationwide.
This is according to the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Dr Shuaib Belgore, who disclosed this at a two-day High Conference on Decongestion and Corrections Management in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
Belgore stated that the fund is budgeted for in the 2023 Appropriation Act.
He said that there has been a steady rise in the population of the custodial centres with at least 80% of the inmates awaiting trial.
According to him, there are 244 custodial centres nationwide, with a 75,507-inmate population, thereby leading to 82 of them being overcrowded.
The total number of male inmates is 73,821 and female 1,686 female inmates, he noted.
Out of the 75,507 inmates, 52,436 are awaiting trial while 23,071 are convicted persons, with 3,322 as condemned inmates on death row.
That nonsense beans
ReplyDeleteLast minute "chopping" allegedly, and if APC succeeds APC, then who can probe all these last minute reckless spending and misappropriation of our Common Wealth ???
ReplyDeleteAre the inmates that loved ???some of us by virtue of our profession, have the privilege of visiting these inmates at intervals, and we know their conditions.... Their living condition is nothing to write home about.... So, I doubt that anything has changed overnight !
This present government lacks accountability, but, make no mistake......the previous governments weren't better in terms of corruption, but the only thing that stood the previous government out, are the absence of nepotism, muzzling of freedom to speak freely, and wanton killing of innocent indigenous peoples of Nigeria by the notorious killer herders.....