The Federal Government of Nigeria has commenced the audit of inmates across the 256 Custodial Centres in the country.
This was announced by Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo who said the move was part of measures to decongest the facilities.
In a statement on Friday by the Minister’s Media Assistant, Alao Babatunde, it was made known that the Minister had paid a visit to the ongoing construction of the 3,000-capacity Maximum Security Custodial Centre in Janguza, Kano State as well as the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Kuje, Abuja.
“The audit is ongoing but the good thing for me is that we did a facility audit earlier and we can see that the result of the facility audit is how we are intervening.
“So, we are very empirical and scientific in our approach. We don’t just throw solutions to unknown problems. We discover the problems, we know the root cause of issues, then we find solutions to them.”
The Minister who got a gift of three books authored by one of the inmates who had been in the correctional centre for 12 years said they are making use of empirical method to carry out the audit.
“So, the audit system is being empirical. It is scientific and that will lead massively to the decongestion of our Custodial Centres. It is not just saying you want to decongest. It is about you knowing the status. Life is all about data. Data is the new oil.
“Data is the blood of life in this millennium. The audit is going on and by the time we are done with the audit, you will see the level of decongestion that we will have as a result of the audit. So, we are just being empirical.”
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