- Britain will build a new wing at Kirikiri Prison in the Nigerian city of Lagos so that it can transfer Nigerian prisoners there, the government in London has announced.

The new 112-bed wing, which will cost 700,000 pounds ($973,000) and be compliant with United Nations standards, will make it easier for Britain to comply with a prisoner transfer agreement it signed with Nigeria in 2014.

Under that deal, eligible prisoners serving criminal sentences in Nigeria and Britain can be returned to complete their sentences in their respective countries. The British government did not indicate how many prisoners might be moved or when the project is likely to be completed.

Nigerian prisons — many of them built by British colonisers more than 100 years ago — are severely overcrowded, leading to the spread of diseases. The government in Abuja has said it is developing a strategy to tackle the issue.

Britain’s own prison system has been showing signs of severe strain in recent years, with overcrowding, rising suicide rates and a growing problem with drug trafficking and other crimes within jails that were sometimes built in the Victorian era.

Kirikiri is not one of the oldest prisons in Nigeria but it does date back to colonial times.

Last month, the government said the prison in the southern city of Port Harcourt, which was originally designed to hold 800 prisoners, currently has nearly 5,000. It said 3,700 of them had been awaiting trial for more than five years.

In a written statement to parliament, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said tenders had been placed and a supplier identified to conduct the building work at Kirikiri. He did not name the supplier.

The project will be funded from Britain’s Conflict, Stability and Security Fund, which has an annual budget of more than 1 billion pounds and aims to commission projects that can help prevent conflicts and stabilise countries or regions.

nice one .maybe I should give that place a tail

Ewo tu ni British prison in Lagos bayi

Now they can easily deport Nigerians straight from their prison to our own.

They better commission Julius Berger to help build it o! Getting any other building contractor would spell doom to the project

Na dat time I go like go prison

bigtt76:
They better commission Julius Berger to help build it o! Getting any other building contractor would spell doom to the project

No!

It will be a standard prison


You go like go?

Wawaman:
nice one .maybe I should give that place a tail

lol

This may actually increase the crime rate in Nigeria. The current conditions of our prisons are enough deterrent to some criminals.

Guestlander:
This may actually increase the crime rate in Nigeria. The current conditions of our prisons are enough deterrent to some criminals.

why do u say so?

Okoroawusa:

why do u say so?

Some foolish criminals may think that the prison will look like a street in London. therefore they will like to experience it by commiting A crime.

anibirelawal:


Some foolish criminals may think that the prison will look like a street in London. therefore they will like to experience it by commiting A crime.

lol

All Blacks ad Africans should resist this move
What kind of yeye modern indirect rule is dis na?

How did we even agree to this bullshi't? Isn't this just stupid? A man works and enriches an area, contributes to their growth and help with manpower but once he's found guilty of crime he's transferred to a country he never paid tax to. Who agrees to such bullshi't?

This is the same nonsense we see in the US Guantanamo Bay in Cuba–a country with no direct flight to the US and sanctions right from Fidel Castro's time. It is simply neocolonialism and only exists in countries where the leaders have no heads.

Will the UK do same for us? Will they build a Nigerian Prison, or better put, a Nigerian Colony in the UK for punishment of British citizens who fell in Nigeria? This is what you get where the leaders are mentally entrapped. Who does that? Fools!

Wawaman:
nice one .maybe I should give that place a tail

are you a criminal

Are they mad?
These people continue to insult us with their moves, statements and gifts.
I dnt blame them because our leaders are cognitively delayed.
Can we build Nigerian prisons in the UK to imprison their people?
Shame on our leaders!
We need industries to engage our youths and to reduce unemployment that breeds criminality but here they come with prison!