Nigerians in ‘private’ prisons

Th ere are too many reports of Nigerians in foreign prisons these days. Th e last report was that that the number of Nigerians in private prisons in Libya was over 2,000. What is the meaning of private prisons? Aren’t these detention camps without government control? How long shall we continue to hear such sad news of our citizens being kept in prisons or of those who lost their lives in the seas? If the Nigerian government can create jobs and provide an enabling environment for its citizens, I don’t think Nigerians within the age bracket of 20 to 35, who constitute the most productive part of our human resources, would be dying just to travel out only to be locked up like animals in a zoo. Assurance Ovie, ICT Department, ANEEJ, Benin City, Edo state