The federal government said plans are underway to relocate Ikoyi prison and some other correctional centres from urban centres in the country to other areas.The minister said urbanisation has eaten into the setbacks that ought to be around correctional centres in the country.
“President Tinubu was not President a 110 years old. He inherited 256 correctional centres that needed attention. There is no way he would have completely overhauled it in one year.“I must talk about urbanisation. Look at Suleja for example, the Suleja correctional centre that came down was only 7 metres away from the next house. Instead of what the law says which is a buffer space of 100 metres. So, urbanisation has eaten deep.
He said the government would soon commence an “inmate audit” across the 256 correctional centres in the country and sanitise them by freeing those who don’t have any business being there in the first instance. “We’ve renovated over 10 correctional centres under this administration,” he said, adding that the government has done “magic in the Kuje correctional centre,” he said.
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