The minister said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that the sheer number of the ATIs is a threat to the security of the custodial centres.
“Our own is to keep, we have no power over who are there, we cannot release them. So, as long as there is a warrant to detain them, we keep them,” he added. On the the reform of inmates, the minister insisted that the custodial centres were doing a good job. “This can only happen only if they choose to. You cannot say they should go to school, they may see opportunity of being there to begin studies, but it is by their choice and not by anybody.
God knows how many years awaiting trials of prison inmates as been in Nigeria. suggestion separate the hardened criminals the rest weigh their crimes if small let them go also use the numbers of years they have stayed in prison and give them some empowerment fund to go with
Abi them wan use style release the Boko Haram members way Boko Haram asked for in an exchange.
The constitution should make provision enforcing state governors to sign death warrants on already condemned criminals
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