The Federal Government on Saturday said it would establish six modern custodial facilities in the six geo-political zones in the country.
Aregbesola said that the project was part of programmes initiated by President Muhammadu Buhari to reform the correctional service.“What we have here is a model of what we expect to have nationwide and here is a 3,000 custodial facility, and we plan to have it in each of the six geo-political zones. Speaking earlier, Mr Ahmad Jafaru, the Controller-General, Nigeria Correctional Service , said that the project was designed with dormitories, school, hospital, skills acquisition centre and a mosque among others.
Great initiative! It's time also to implement reforms in the area of correctional facilities for persons below 18 years as contained in the Child Rights Act. Diversion centres, Residential centres etc!
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