Prison Decongestion in Sight As Item Moves to Concurrent List THISDAYLIVE: Nigeria
writes that end to prison congestion may be in sight, following President Muhammadu Buhari's assent to a Bill to amend the 1999 Constitution to move correctional centers from Exclusive legislative list to Concurrent legislative list.
For decades, there has been a steady rise in the Nigerian prison population. The prison population in the country comprises of adult males and females and young persons. More than 60 percent of prison admissions are waiting trial or being remanded in custody. This overcrowding has led to side effects that inmates experiences and they include damage to physical and mental health and human rights violations.
This was in response first to the order by President Muhammadu Buhari and second, a subsequent instruction by the then Chief Justice of Nigeria , Justice Tanko Muhammad to the chief judges of the states and the Federal Capital Territory to decongest the correctional facilities under their respective jurisdictions.
He said,"I have written the Nigerian Governors Forum to allow me to come and address them on how they can support the process of decongestion. Because the governors must buy into this system for us to do a massive decongestion especially of Awaiting Trial Inmates. If we get the buy in of state judicial authorities and the government of the states, we can pull out 30 per cent of those who are there.
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