FG to relocate Ikoyi Prison, others, says Interior Minister

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By Guardian Nigeria

07 June 2024 | 2:57 americium

The Federal Government said it volition initiate processes to relocate Ikoyi situation and immoderate correctional centres from municipality centres successful the country. Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, stated this connected Channels Television’s Politics Today programme connected Thursday.

The curate said urbanisation has eaten into the setbacks that ought to beryllium astir correctional centres successful the country. Tunji-Ojo said, “Under this administration, we’ve not had immoderate jailhouse attack; what we’ve had was unit majeure, which was Suleja due to the fact that that peculiar correctional centre was built successful 1914. It’s astir 110 years old.

“I indispensable speech astir urbanisation. Look astatine Suleja for example, the correctional centre that came down was lone 7 metres distant from the adjacent house. Instead of what the instrumentality says which is simply a buffer abstraction of 100 metres. So, urbanisation has eaten deep.

“Look astatine Ikoyi Correctional Centre sharing a obstruction with different house. What’s a correctional centre doing successful Ikoyi? This medication is looking astatine being capable to initiate the process of perchance relocating immoderate of these correctional centres.”

He said the authorities would soon commence “inmate audit” crossed the 256 correctional centres successful the state and sanitise them by freeing those who don’t person immoderate concern being determination successful the archetypal instance. He besides said that implicit 97,000 passports were yet to beryllium collected, adding that the ministry was present reaching retired to Nigerians to cod the passports.

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