A young man suspected to be a ritualist who specialised in causing male genitals to vanish has reportedly been arrested by the Abayi Division of the Nigeria Police, World Bank, on the outskirts of Aba, Abia State.

It was gathered that the suspect, simply identified as U.D., had posed as a beggar and in the process of begging for alms touched a man, whose manhood allegedly shrank.

The man immediately raised the alarm, leading to the arrest of the suspect by some youths at MCC junction, off Umuocham Road.



The youths allegedly confirmed the veracity of the victim’s claim, after which they descended on the suspect, beating him black and blue.

It was gathered that the mob was about to set the alleged ritualist on fire when a police team from Abayi division arrived and took him to the station.

Efforts to reach the Divisional Police Officer of Abayi Police Station, where the suspect was being held, failed. However, a resident of the area, who simply gave his name as Emma, confirmed the incident and stated that efforts were being made for the restoration of the victim’s manhood.

He said: “The suspect, after admitting he was responsible for the missing manhood, said the victim’s organ won’t be restored unless he took him to a shrine.”

But after much persuasion, he allegedly told the police he had to be taken, with the man, to the exact spot he touched him earlier before the man’s manhood will be restored.”

Unconfirmed report has the victim’s manhood was later restored, but turned out not to achieve strong erection.

When contacted, Abia State command Police Public Relations Officer, Geoffrey Ogbonna, confirmed the suspect’s arrest, who he said was in custody.

Ogbonna said they were yet to obtain statement from the suspect, who, until the time of the report, was admitted in an undisclosed hospital for medical attention following the mob action.

He said the mission of the police to the scene was to rescue the suspect after they got a distress call from concerned residents over attempt by the mob to lynch him.

Markfemi2:


lool seplat is for foreginers not igbos

Seplat Petroleum Development Company (Seplat) is a Nigerian oil company based in Lagos.[1] The company was formed in 2009 by a merger of Platform Petroleum and Shebah Exploration and Production, both small Nigerian based companies.[2] Maurel & Prom, a French oil exploration company, purchased a 45% share in the newly formed company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seplat_Petroleum_Development_Company

this is unlike AOS OIL WHICH IS 100% OWNED BY YORUBA

ALSO PLS SEE JULI PLC FIRST AND BIGGEST PHARAMACETICAL COMPANY\\http://www.juliplc.com.ng/about_us-history_biz.php

Afonjas are not happy simply google research will cure your ignorance

https://seplatpetroleum.com/about-us/our-board/

The Seplat Board consists of highly experienced professionals and business experts with profound understanding of the dynamics of the oil and gas industry at both local and international levels.

Dr. Ambrosie Bryant Chukwueloka OrjiakoChairman

A.B.C. Orjiako, a co-founder of Seplat, was appointed as a director on 14 December 2009 and as Chairman on 3 March 2010.

After obtaining an M.B.B.Ch. degree in 1985 from the College of Medical Sciences, University of Calabar, Nigeria, Dr Orjiako trained as a General Surgeon at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, and later sub-specialised in orthopaedic and trauma surgery and became a fellow of the West African College of Surgeons in 1996.

Whilst still practicing at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi, Lagos, Dr Orjiako established and managed various companies in the upstream, downstream and services sectors of the oil and gas industry in Nigeria. These include Abbeycourt Trading Company Limited (with which he traded crude oil and refined petroleum products with, amongst others, Glencore UK Limited), Abbeycourt Energy Services Limited, Zebbra Energy Limited and Shebah Exploration and Production Company Limited. He also has other business interests in construction, real estate development, pharmaceuticals and shipping.

Dr Orjiako went into full-time business in 1996 after eleven years of active medical practice. He co-founded Seplat in 2009 and became the Chairman, spearheading new business development and fundraising as well as providing leadership on strategy and stakeholder relationships. He is also the chairman of Neimeth Pharmaceutical International plc, which is listed on the NSE, and a director of MPI, which is listed on NYSE Euronext Paris.

Consolidating his firm commitment to philanthropy, Dr Orjiako founded the Daniel Orjiako Memorial Foundation (‘‘DOMF’’) in 1996 in honour of his late father, Chief Daniel O. Orjiako. The DOMF is committed to breaking the poverty cycle in rural Nigerian communities through education, healthcare services and economic empowerment through agriculture. The DOMF runs scholarship schemes for indigent students across the spectrum of education in Nigeria and has to date assisted towards the education of over 10,000 pupils in primary schools, over 200 in science education in post-primary schools and over 200 university graduates especially in medicine, engineering, pharmacy and geology. The DOMF also provides free care services to the elderly and micro-credits to rural farmers, particularly rural women. He further supports education and medical research through an endowment of a professorial chair in orthopaedics and trauma at the University of Calabar, Nigeria.

Between 2004 and 2006, Dr Orjiako attended Harvard Business School’s Owner’s and President’s Management Course and obtained a Certificate in Business Management in 2006.

In recognition of his services to humanity and the Roman Catholic church, Pope John Paul II in 2003 bestowed on him a Knighthood of the Order of St. Gregory the Great (KSGG), an award which earned him the title ‘‘Sir’’. In addition to receiving a KSGG from Pope John Paul II in 2003, he has also received numerous other awards including the Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International for Philanthropy, Distinguished Alumnus Award and Doctor of Sciences (D.Sc. Honoris Causa) by the University of Calabar, Nigeria (2001), Doctor of Business Administration (DBA Honoris Causa) for entrepreneurship, Anambra State University, Nigeria (2006), Life Member National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria which he led in 1994/95 and Platinum Award of the West African College of Surgeons for Support of Medical Research and Training. In 2012, the President of Nigeria conferred on him National Honours as an Officer of the Federal Republic (‘‘OFR’’).

mercyville:


Like bees, beggars have swarmed cities in Anambra State, including Awka, the capital. The streets are congested with these beggars said to be numbering over 10, 000.
IGBOS AND BEGGING ARE LIKE 1 AND 2.THEY FULL LAGOS HERE.REASON FASHOLA DEPORTED THEM.THE WORSE THING BE SAY DEM CRAZY PEOPLE BEREKETE.No wonder...

ONWUBIKO MAD ANALYSIS...

For instance, in the North East Zone, four out of 37 prisons had 20 mentally ill inmates. In the North West, they were 50, while in the South South they were 79. Also, in the South West, they were 121. Two hundred and eighty-nine were found in the South East zone, with Enugu having 136. Lunatics in Nigerian prisons are as follows; South South – 79; North East – 20; North Central – 44; South West – 100 IGBOS and 21 human beings; North West – 45; and South East – 363; making a total of 672.
http://theeagleonline.com.ng/lunatics-in-nigerian-prisons-by-emmanuel-onwubiko/

lol keep posting your afonja brothers here..you are really making the ministry to move too fast

Awolowo001:
Yorubaaaaaa

IGBOS AND MADNESS ARE LIKE 7 AND 8.THE CAUSE IS LIVING IN PENURY REASON THEY WANDER TO THE SW.

Lunatics in Nigerian prisons, by Emmanuel Onwubiko



http://theeagleonline.com.ng/lunatics-in-nigerian-prisons-by-emmanuel-onwubiko/

With the 2012 prison Audit report publicly presented on May 16, 2013 in the nation’s capital, it is believed in critical cycle that the President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration would activate effective mechanism to release these persons with mental illness in Nigerian prisons to be treated in psychiatric hospitals spread across Nigeria
Uju Agomoh, the Executive Director of one of Nigeria’s best known credible civil society organizations, Prisoners Rehabilitation and Welfare Action, has done a lot of advocacy activities around the issue of the illegality of prolonged detention of mentally challenged persons in the heavily dilapidated, derelict and decrepit archaic infrastructure we today call prisons in Nigeria. In several speaking events around Nigeria, Uju Agomoh, who is vastly travelled globally, has canvassed an end to the unconstitutional practice of detaining persons who are mentally challenged in the antiquated prison facilities in Nigeria that are lacking in medical and/or psychiatric facilities. Sadly, the political administrators heading the highly incompetent ministry of interior don’t give a damn about what to do to change this evil status quo.



Many years after, Agomoh kick-started her campaign to end the impunity of detention without medicare of persons afflicted with mental retardation, this tireless human rights advocate, may have finally got the institutional support of the Federal government because a recently released 2012 prison audit report by the National Human Rights Commission of Nigeria which was publicly validated by the National Assembly of Nigeria and other leading human rights stakeholders, disclosed that there are many persons that are mentally challenged who are detained in prisons across the country who ought not to be there in the first instance.




With the 2012 prison Audit report publicly presented on May 16, 2013 in the nation’s capital, it is believed in critical cycle that the President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration would activate effective mechanism to release these persons with mental illness in Nigerian prisons to be treated in psychiatric hospitals spread across Nigeria.
Conversely, it is also expected that since most of these lunatics in Nigerian prisons were sent to those prison facilities by the justice ministries and prosecutorial institutions working for the various state governments whereby this ugly phenomenon is noticed, these state governments must take immediate action to release and medically rehabilitate these category of hapless inmates.




The National Assembly and the state Houses of Assembly must also introduce effective legal frame work to make it almost impossible for lunatics to ever be sent to prisons rather than sent to psychiatric medical facilities for attention. As it is, the current bunch of politicians at the state levels are not in the right frame of mind to effectively carry out this revolutionary project of ensuring that lunatics are taken to the appropriate psychiatric facilities for proper treatment and rehabilitation and not locked up in the prisons to die.
In the year 2012 prison audit report introduced to the public by the National Human Rights Commission of Nigeria, some of the prisons audited across the country had mentally ill inmates in detention, despite the fact that these facilities have no qualified psychiatrics or the facility to take care of their special need.




For instance, in the North East Zone, four out of 37 prisons had 20 mentally ill inmates. In the North West, they were 50, while in the South South they were 79. Also, in the South West, they were 121. Two hundred and eighty-nine were found in the South East zone, with Enugu having 136.
Lunatics in Nigerian prisons are as follows; South South – 79; North East – 20; North Central – 44; South West – 121-100 igbos; North West – 45; and South East – 363; making a total of 672.





There are other sad tales from the prison audit report just issued which importantly stated that sanitation of those prison facilities have become so bad and deteriorated thereby exposing many of these prison inmates to unfathomable health predicaments.
On state of sanitation of Nigerian prisons, the report has it: “Though there is every effort by the inmates to keep the cells clean and tidy, the age of the infrastructure (some of these prisons were built in 1925) and overcrowding in some cells frustrated the effort. In most of the prisons, the water cistern toilets were broken and there was no water to flush after use in some instances. In some, they used the bucket system and that created a lot of stench in the cells. Some of the prisons where the bucket system of toilet is still in use are Gassol and Serti prisons in Taraba State, and Misua prison in Bauchi State; Otukpo in Benue State, Pankshin in Plateau State and Ilorin in Kwara State. In some other instance there exist sewage system, the sewage systems were either broken or filled up. The prisons also lacked basic toiletries like soap or disinfectants.”





The report, which rightly criticized this bad state of sanitation of these prisons, reminded the Nigerian authority thus: “The UN Standard Minimum Rules on the Treatment of prisoners and other international, Regional or National laws have set a benchmark for the treatment of prisoners. In each of these human rights instruments, it is stated that prisoners are to be accorded with dignity and human being shall not be treated in a dehumanizing manner, even when his/her freedom to liberty has be taken away by the instrument of law.”
Writing specifically with reference to what they observed, the report is of the opinion: “The standard of facilities in the Nigerian prisons are appalling, to say the least. Most of the prisons audited lacked facilities that would aid the wellbeing of the inmates as well as the reintegration of inmates back in the society after their release from prison.”
The report also observed that most prison facilities in Nigeria are deficient in vocational, recreational, health, educational and transport facilities.





Substantially, the findings of the investigators who visited the 173 prison facilities all across Nigeria, show that Nigeria has failed to respect international humanitarian and human rights laws in the administration of these facilities.
According to the report: “The dignity of the human person is an inherent right. In Furtherance of that, the need to adhere to minimum standard in protecting the welfare of inmates cannot be overemphasized. Despite the fact that the inmates are legally deprived of their freedom of movement, their right to the dignity of the human person cannot and need not be compromised. Section 34 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), provides that “every individual is entitled to respect for the dignity of his person”. Similarly, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights provide as follows: “all persons deprived of their liberty shall be treated with humanity and with respect for the inherent dignity of the human persons.”





The report passed a vote of no confidence on Nigerian prisons thus: “It was observed during exercise that the wellbeing of the inmates was far from the minimum standard provided under the laws.”
Nigerians are also aware that of late, a lot of prison wardens have lost their lives to the violence viciously launched by armed terrorists who have successfully organized jailbreaks to free their detained members and the Federal Government has made no concrete effort to build better protected prisons. This criminal neglect on the part of Government is a grave crime against humanity. The plan by the National Assembly constitution review committee to transfer prison from the exclusive legislative list to the concurrent is not the best way out as most state governments are too poor to run good prisons.





With the above background in mind, it is therefore inexplicable that the Federal government rushed into lobbying the National Assembly to amend the prison Act without introducing bold, positive and revolutionary ideas that will change the face of the prisons and improve the security and welfare of the inmates and officials. This government has succeeded in signing an agreement with Britain that will allow for the prisoners’ exchange partnership with the government of United Kingdom to make it easier for Britain to transfer Nigerian-born but United Kingdom-based persons convicted for sundry crime in the United Kingdom back to Nigeria to serve out their prison terms.
The question to be asked is why rush to accept heavy indirect financial bribe from the government of Britain just so that Nigeria can accede to the prisoners exchange programme aimed at decongesting the British prisons that are built with modern and functional infrastructural facilities when Nigerian prisons are in very bad shape and overstretched?




Even going by the recent prison audit report, Nigerian prisons are over-populated even as majority of the inmates are awaiting trial persons.
“Across the prisons the number of Awaiting Trial inmates was far above that of convicts. In the 173 prisons audited, out of 50,645 lockups, the number of convicts was 13,901 compared to awaiting trial inmates of 35,889. Besides the awaiting trial inmates, Ikom prison in Cross River State had 5 lodgers, Ahoada Prison in Rivers State and Benin prison in Edo State, had 2 and 1 lodgers respectively; (lodgers are persons kept in prison without an order of court detaining them. There are no records of such inmates in the prison records).”
I therefore ask, are these derelict prison facilities in Nigeria the places whereby these repatriated British based prisoners be transferred into?





It would be recalled that when this sinister move by government to sign the controversial prisoners exchange treaty with the United Kingdom was exposed, most critical stakeholders opposed it and raised suspicion that the then federal government headed by late Umaru Musa Yar’adua only wanted to rush the agreement so as to find a way to bring back the incarcerated former Delta State governor James Ibori [Yar’adua’s political friend] who was jailed in Britain for sundry offences bordering on theft of Delta State fund.
With these sad tales emanating from the Nigerian prisons, it is therefore inconceivable that any British based Nigerian prisoner could voluntarily accept to be repatriated to serve term in prisons facilities in Nigeria that are absolutely sub-human and filthy.
* Emmanuel Onwubiko, Head, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, blogs@www.huriwa..com; www.huriwa.org.

OJUKUS..

Awolowo001:


ThankGod say I Don watch my clothes finish....

Na to bring mat, relax here be that....

This night to hut for some people today...

Lol. Abeg destroy the yaribats.

Awolowo001:
YORUBA REGION of SOPHISTICATION

Lol. Region of brown roof and skull minning.

IGBO LAND OF INDUSTRY

lol...idp camp in osun. .ewedu mosslems at it again

Awolowo001:
Yorubaaaaaa and their threaded cat face

Osus, duplicity and frauds, very synonymous!

Our marks are not as thick as Osu tribal ichi marks.

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Shameless yoruba people show us what you produce,not insults.even if its human skull.

Markfemi2:
IGBO LAND OF INDUSTRY

SUFFERNESS DON HAMMER IGBO PEOPLE FINISH.THEY HAVE A VERY SMALL ENCLAVE BUT STILL HAVE BROWN ROOFS UPON SAY DEM LATE TO CIVILISE.WRETCHED SOULS..


SHUKUEKU,YOU BETTER STAY FOR SW AND ENJOY YOUR LIFE.LOOK AT YOUR IGBOLAND..SMALL BUT POVERTY STRICKEN.SHAME TO 40 MILLION COMPRESSED HEADS

IGBOLAND

IGBO LAND OF BUSINESS MEN

Markfemi2:

.

Igbos owns Neimeth
http://www.neimethplc.com.ng/board-of-directors/#

Dr. A. B. C Orjiako
Chairman

He joined the board in February 2004, and from 1st February, 2005 became the non-executive Chairman. A medical doctor and fellow, West Africa College of Surgeons, he has various business interests including Energy, Petroleum, Trading exploration and Marine Service. In addition, he is and has been Chairman and President of several other high networth companies and organization and is an accomplished education philanthropist.


Dr. (Mrs) E. I. Ekpunobi
MD/CEO

Dr. Ebere Igboko Ekpunobi joined Neimeth in 2015 as Deputy Managing Director, and appointed the Acting MD/CEO of Neimeth International Pharmaceuticals Plc in November, 2015 and confirmed substantive MD/CEO with effect from March 1, 2016. Dr. Igboko Ekpunobi obtained a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Nigeria Nsukka (1985) and a Master of Science degree from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana USA (1989). She holds a Doctorate degree in Pharmacy Administration with emphasis in Pharmaceutical Marketing and Pharmaco-economics, from Purdue University (1992). She is a registered member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, American Pharmacists Association, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, and Federation of International Pharmacists.



Dr. Igboko Ekpunobi’s pharmaceutical industry career spans a wide spectrum of functional areas across several continents – Africa, North America, Europe, and Asia. She began her career as community pharmacist in Lagos, Nigeria and continued in the USA as a community pharmacist, followed by positions of increasing responsibilities in the manufacturing sector. She has held different leadership positions in marketing, corporate strategy and, across several therapeutic areas – HIV, malaria, oncology, neurosciences, immunology etc.




Mr. Christopher U. Mmeje
Finance Director

Mr Mmeje was appointed into the board as Executive Director – Finance on 25th February 2008. He is an accomplished Accountant and Chartered Banker with formidable experience spanning manufacturing, banking and the hospitality Industry. He was Managing Director/CEO of Island Bank,Sao Tomeand has expertly managed the finance and credits of some key organizations from the brink into enviable profitability in the last couple of years.

Markfemi2:
IGBO LAND OF INDUSTRY

Choi! I feel so nauseous.. Osu are something else.

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Lol. Yaribats don suffer.

Igbo land
Land of the brave

Nwakaumu:
Shameless yoruba people show us what you produce,not insults.even if its human skull.

We have shown you what we produce
And we are insulting you

Awolowo001:
YORUBA PEOPLE

Do you even know what you are posting? That 1st picture you attached to your post, showing a girl with tribal marks actually depicts an Igbo girl, and not a Yoruba girl! It was taken from a gallery showing pre-colonial Igbo Land (Igbo people prior to Colonization). You will find more details about it on this blog: Ụ́kpụ́rụ́ - Historical images of the Igbo, their neighbours and beyond. There is also a picture of an Igbo palmwine tapper there with Ichi marks, on his face. http://ukpuru.tumblr.com/post/24845505853/an-igbo-palm-wine-tapper-with-ichi-marks-on-his . Check this thread for full details also: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=83417982&langid=6 .

But honestly, all you guys need to stop this. We were talking about commerce and industry before this crap started, and not tribal marks.

Igbo land of wonder

mercyville:


IGBOS AND MADNESS ARE LIKE 7 AND 8.THE CAUSE IS LIVING IN PENURY REASON THEY WANDER TO THE SW.

Lunatics in Nigerian prisons, by Emmanuel Onwubiko



http://theeagleonline.com.ng/lunatics-in-nigerian-prisons-by-emmanuel-onwubiko/

With the 2012 prison Audit report publicly presented on May 16, 2013 in the nation’s capital, it is believed in critical cycle that the President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration would activate effective mechanism to release these persons with mental illness in Nigerian prisons to be treated in psychiatric hospitals spread across Nigeria
Uju Agomoh, the Executive Director of one of Nigeria’s best known credible civil society organizations, Prisoners Rehabilitation and Welfare Action, has done a lot of advocacy activities around the issue of the illegality of prolonged detention of mentally challenged persons in the heavily dilapidated, derelict and decrepit archaic infrastructure we today call prisons in Nigeria. In several speaking events around Nigeria, Uju Agomoh, who is vastly travelled globally, has canvassed an end to the unconstitutional practice of detaining persons who are mentally challenged in the antiquated prison facilities in Nigeria that are lacking in medical and/or psychiatric facilities. Sadly, the political administrators heading the highly incompetent ministry of interior don’t give a damn about what to do to change this evil status quo.



Many years after, Agomoh kick-started her campaign to end the impunity of detention without medicare of persons afflicted with mental retardation, this tireless human rights advocate, may have finally got the institutional support of the Federal government because a recently released 2012 prison audit report by the National Human Rights Commission of Nigeria which was publicly validated by the National Assembly of Nigeria and other leading human rights stakeholders, disclosed that there are many persons that are mentally challenged who are detained in prisons across the country who ought not to be there in the first instance.




With the 2012 prison Audit report publicly presented on May 16, 2013 in the nation’s capital, it is believed in critical cycle that the President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration would activate effective mechanism to release these persons with mental illness in Nigerian prisons to be treated in psychiatric hospitals spread across Nigeria.
Conversely, it is also expected that since most of these lunatics in Nigerian prisons were sent to those prison facilities by the justice ministries and prosecutorial institutions working for the various state governments whereby this ugly phenomenon is noticed, these state governments must take immediate action to release and medically rehabilitate these category of hapless inmates.




The National Assembly and the state Houses of Assembly must also introduce effective legal frame work to make it almost impossible for lunatics to ever be sent to prisons rather than sent to psychiatric medical facilities for attention. As it is, the current bunch of politicians at the state levels are not in the right frame of mind to effectively carry out this revolutionary project of ensuring that lunatics are taken to the appropriate psychiatric facilities for proper treatment and rehabilitation and not locked up in the prisons to die.
In the year 2012 prison audit report introduced to the public by the National Human Rights Commission of Nigeria, some of the prisons audited across the country had mentally ill inmates in detention, despite the fact that these facilities have no qualified psychiatrics or the facility to take care of their special need.




For instance, in the North East Zone, four out of 37 prisons had 20 mentally ill inmates. In the North West, they were 50, while in the South South they were 79. Also, in the South West, they were 121. Two hundred and eighty-nine were found in the South East zone, with Enugu having 136.
Lunatics in Nigerian prisons are as follows; South South – 79; North East – 20; North Central – 44; South West – 121-100 igbos; North West – 45; and South East – 363; making a total of 672.





There are other sad tales from the prison audit report just issued which importantly stated that sanitation of those prison facilities have become so bad and deteriorated thereby exposing many of these prison inmates to unfathomable health predicaments.
On state of sanitation of Nigerian prisons, the report has it: “Though there is every effort by the inmates to keep the cells clean and tidy, the age of the infrastructure (some of these prisons were built in 1925) and overcrowding in some cells frustrated the effort. In most of the prisons, the water cistern toilets were broken and there was no water to flush after use in some instances. In some, they used the bucket system and that created a lot of stench in the cells. Some of the prisons where the bucket system of toilet is still in use are Gassol and Serti prisons in Taraba State, and Misua prison in Bauchi State; Otukpo in Benue State, Pankshin in Plateau State and Ilorin in Kwara State. In some other instance there exist sewage system, the sewage systems were either broken or filled up. The prisons also lacked basic toiletries like soap or disinfectants.”





The report, which rightly criticized this bad state of sanitation of these prisons, reminded the Nigerian authority thus: “The UN Standard Minimum Rules on the Treatment of prisoners and other international, Regional or National laws have set a benchmark for the treatment of prisoners. In each of these human rights instruments, it is stated that prisoners are to be accorded with dignity and human being shall not be treated in a dehumanizing manner, even when his/her freedom to liberty has be taken away by the instrument of law.”
Writing specifically with reference to what they observed, the report is of the opinion: “The standard of facilities in the Nigerian prisons are appalling, to say the least. Most of the prisons audited lacked facilities that would aid the wellbeing of the inmates as well as the reintegration of inmates back in the society after their release from prison.”
The report also observed that most prison facilities in Nigeria are deficient in vocational, recreational, health, educational and transport facilities.





Substantially, the findings of the investigators who visited the 173 prison facilities all across Nigeria, show that Nigeria has failed to respect international humanitarian and human rights laws in the administration of these facilities.
According to the report: “The dignity of the human person is an inherent right. In Furtherance of that, the need to adhere to minimum standard in protecting the welfare of inmates cannot be overemphasized. Despite the fact that the inmates are legally deprived of their freedom of movement, their right to the dignity of the human person cannot and need not be compromised. Section 34 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), provides that “every individual is entitled to respect for the dignity of his person”. Similarly, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights provide as follows: “all persons deprived of their liberty shall be treated with humanity and with respect for the inherent dignity of the human persons.”





The report passed a vote of no confidence on Nigerian prisons thus: “It was observed during exercise that the wellbeing of the inmates was far from the minimum standard provided under the laws.”
Nigerians are also aware that of late, a lot of prison wardens have lost their lives to the violence viciously launched by armed terrorists who have successfully organized jailbreaks to free their detained members and the Federal Government has made no concrete effort to build better protected prisons. This criminal neglect on the part of Government is a grave crime against humanity. The plan by the National Assembly constitution review committee to transfer prison from the exclusive legislative list to the concurrent is not the best way out as most state governments are too poor to run good prisons.





With the above background in mind, it is therefore inexplicable that the Federal government rushed into lobbying the National Assembly to amend the prison Act without introducing bold, positive and revolutionary ideas that will change the face of the prisons and improve the security and welfare of the inmates and officials. This government has succeeded in signing an agreement with Britain that will allow for the prisoners’ exchange partnership with the government of United Kingdom to make it easier for Britain to transfer Nigerian-born but United Kingdom-based persons convicted for sundry crime in the United Kingdom back to Nigeria to serve out their prison terms.
The question to be asked is why rush to accept heavy indirect financial bribe from the government of Britain just so that Nigeria can accede to the prisoners exchange programme aimed at decongesting the British prisons that are built with modern and functional infrastructural facilities when Nigerian prisons are in very bad shape and overstretched?




Even going by the recent prison audit report, Nigerian prisons are over-populated even as majority of the inmates are awaiting trial persons.
“Across the prisons the number of Awaiting Trial inmates was far above that of convicts. In the 173 prisons audited, out of 50,645 lockups, the number of convicts was 13,901 compared to awaiting trial inmates of 35,889. Besides the awaiting trial inmates, Ikom prison in Cross River State had 5 lodgers, Ahoada Prison in Rivers State and Benin prison in Edo State, had 2 and 1 lodgers respectively; (lodgers are persons kept in prison without an order of court detaining them. There are no records of such inmates in the prison records).”
I therefore ask, are these derelict prison facilities in Nigeria the places whereby these repatriated British based prisoners be transferred into?





It would be recalled that when this sinister move by government to sign the controversial prisoners exchange treaty with the United Kingdom was exposed, most critical stakeholders opposed it and raised suspicion that the then federal government headed by late Umaru Musa Yar’adua only wanted to rush the agreement so as to find a way to bring back the incarcerated former Delta State governor James Ibori [Yar’adua’s political friend] who was jailed in Britain for sundry offences bordering on theft of Delta State fund.
With these sad tales emanating from the Nigerian prisons, it is therefore inconceivable that any British based Nigerian prisoner could voluntarily accept to be repatriated to serve term in prisons facilities in Nigeria that are absolutely sub-human and filthy.
* Emmanuel Onwubiko, Head, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, blogs@www.huriwa..com; www.huriwa.org.

OJUKUS..

It's genetic, I mean prostitution is ingrained in the blood, even insane people no dey carry last.

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Igbo land of virtuous women

This is most senseless thread ever on nairaland, has anyone gain anything here other than my dads p,rick is bigger than your dads.

Yatibats lond of ritualists

Kagawa10:


Choi! I feel so nauseous.. Osu are something else.

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YES OSU ARE DEMONS AND BARBARIC...