President Muhammadu Buhari has directed state governors across the country to ensure the reduction of the number of prison inmates in their various states.

Kaduna State Governor Malam Nasir el-Rufai, who disclosed this while on a working visit to the Kaduna convict prison, said the president’s directive was in the spirit of decongesting the prisons across the country.

El-Rufai said, “Our leader, President Muhammadu Buhari, has directed all governors to visit prisons and ensure that we reduce to the barest minimum those that have spent many years awaiting trial in our courts.

“It is injustice for a person to be kept for a long time in the name of awaiting trial. This is why President Buhari directed all governors to undertake such visits so that, working together with the Ministry of Justices and the Prison authorities, we’ll ensure we do something about it.”

He assured that the state government, despite its financial challenges, would do its best to ensure that the people prison for wrong reasons and are awaiting trial get justice.

Receiving the governor, the state controller of prison, Mr. Abubakar Garba, noted that the convict prison, established in 1915 with the capacity of 547, is now housing over 1,000 inmates.

Disclosing that about 114 inmates were condemned criminals, with 11 of them citizens of Kaduna State, he appealed to the governor to commute the death sentences of 11 inmates of Kaduna State origin to life imprisonment. He also revealed that the prison had only two functional vans for conveying about 800 awaiting trial inmates, which he said, portends danger to people of the state.
http://leadership.ng/news/440149/buhari-directs-governors-to-decongest-prisons

Hmmm. To make way for new inmates, right.

The war is about to begin!

Hehehehehehe!!
No comment!

Sh*t is about to get Real

Snoring

Freedom for pre trial detainees.

The Press version is the PR version, we all know the real koko..

Baba is stylishly preparing space to keep the "GOATS" that have almost finished our collective "YAMS"..

Una TANoids don hear ba?? The "persecution" is about to start ...

Buhari is just getting warmed up!!!

Someone isn't coming back from the UK.

things are about the get messy..

Delphi:
Hmmm. To make way for new inmates, right.

Get out of my břain....Lol.

Exactly what i wanted to type.

Nigerians will be blindfolded with the fact that he's creating space for more inmate to come in but nay, this a crooked move to setting them(boko boys)free. Need i say more?

ok! It's like he'll now jail gej n mama peace as his moronic supporters believe he would.

HAVE BEEN EXPECTING THIS NO NONSENSE ATTITUDE SINCE MAY 29 BUT I HAVENT SEEN ANY YET.

watching in HD.....

Delphi:
Hmmm. To make way for new inmates, right.

Exactly.

Akpabio built the best prison for himself so if you were a former governor or council chairman you didn't do that goodluck Jonathan to you oh don't complain that they didn't let you see your foreign doctors oh.

Yes the prisons needs de congestion to allow space for incoming inmates. Charity they say starts from home, so dear president remember to start with Aregbesola. He alone can tell us why he can't pay salaries despite federal alloc being paid to date

richidinho:
10 working days as Nigeria President

2milliion barrel per day x 10days = 20m barrels

20m barrels x $66 (crude oil price)

=$1.3billion

That's not how it's calculated. Many of lifts operate as JVs where Nigeria pockets between 12-40% of the proceeds. Most of the JV arrangement are however scandalous. A lot needs to be done to reposition this nation from slaving to butter the bread of an avaricious few.

I dey come

ABIOLAXYZ:
HAVE BEEN EXPECTING THIS NO NONSENSE ATTITUDE SINCE MAY 29 BUT I HAVENT SEEN ANY YET.

He is a democratic dictator not a military despot.