The Federal Government says it will initiate processes to possibly relocate Ikoyi prison and some of other correctional centres from urban centres in the country to other area.
Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, stated this in an interview on a television programme on Thursday. The minister said urbanisation has eaten into the setbacks that ought to be around correctional centres in the country.
He said the government would soon commence “inmate audit” across the 256 correctional centres in the country and sanitise them by freeing those who don’t have any business being there in the first instance.
Tunji-Ojo said President Bola Tinubu inherited so many old correctional centres that need attention but the government has started the renovation and rebuilding of some of the prisons in Nigeria.
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