Freedman decries congestion in correctional centres

The Controller of Correctional Service, Lagos State Command, Ben-Rabbi Freedman, has decried the congestion of inmates successful Lagos State correctional centres, which helium blamed connected deficiency of insufficient infrastructure.

He besides said that inmates awaiting trial, including those successful request of ineligible advice, were 1 of the causes of congestion successful the correctional facilities. Freedman gave the lamentation during the 5th yearly league of the RCCG Prison and Hospital Ministry, with the theme: “Wind of Divine Repositioning,” held astatine the Redemption Camp, Mowe, Ogun State. He expressed interest that nary less than 700 inmates were being brought to correctional centres each 2 weeks.

“Seventy per cent of inmates successful correctional facilities successful Nigeria are awaiting trial. This is an issue. Some of the inmates bash not person ineligible representation, though determination are ineligible immunodeficiency provided for the indigent, including assistance from non-governmental organisations and RCCG. This is not enough.

“The contented of transgression justness is truly begging for superior attention. We person organization gaps successful the paths of the constabulary and the judiciary,” Freedman said.

Also, the National Chairman, RCCG Prison and Hospital Ministry, Ariyo Popoola, urged parents, guardians and spiritual bodies to dedicate important clip and absorption to the children. He said that the payment of inmates had been a precedence for the ministry with galore of them receiving grooming successful assorted vocational skills.

In his keynote address, the National Overseer of the RCCG, Sunday Akande, advised the ministry to align itself arsenic 1 of the apparatus to stimulate numerical and spiritual maturation of the religion successful the pursuit of Visions 2032 mandate of RCCG.