Nigeria can meet UN standards for inmate care under Tunji-Ojo, says APC Chieftain

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru

ABUJA — Spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress, APC, successful Rivers State, Darlington Nwauju, connected Monday said the Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, is starring what helium described arsenic the astir significant, ambitious, and impactful reforms successful the past of Nigeria’s correctional services.

Nwuju successful a connection said the reforms are transforming the assemblage nationwide.

He stated that a landmark accomplishment nether the Nigeria Correctional Services, NCoS, was the palmy large country performed connected an inmate astatine the Kuje Correctional Facility—the archetypal of its benignant successful the country.

According to him, “Before Dr. Tunji-Ojo’s tenure astatine the Ministry of Interior, aesculapian facilities crossed the 254 correctional centers were either dilapidated oregon wholly absent.

“However, wrong conscionable 2 years nether his leadership, the absorption connected inmate healthcare has dramatically improved.While we person yet to execute perfection successful Nigeria’s correctional services, determination is simply a wide argumentation displacement toward humanitarian attraction of inmates, aligned with the Mandela Rules—the 2015 United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners.

“Over the past twelvemonth alone, 27 inmates person graduated from the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), with much than 150 students presently enrolled. In addition, inmates person received grooming successful tailoring, shoemaking, and soap making, equipping them with skills for beingness aft incarceration.

“This human-centered attack ensures that inmates permission correctional facilities afloat rehabilitated and intellectually prepared to positively lend to nation-building.”

He said nether Tunji-Ojo’s leadership, the ministry of interior has revived anticipation successful the Nigerian imagination by demonstrating resilience, foresight, and leadership—qualities that animate not lone Nigeria but the full sub-region and the achromatic race.

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