Prisons to build 3,000 capacity ultra-modern custody in Kano

The Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) has laid 3,000 capacity ultra-modern prison in Janguza – a satellite town in Tofa Local Government Area of Kano state. When completed it will be the largest prison facility to be built in Nigeria.
The Controller-General of Prisons, Ja’afaru Ahmed, in his welcome address during the ground-breaking ceremony expressed delight, adding that the problems facing the Nigerian Prisons Service were enormous but expressed hope that they would soon be over as the APC led Government under the
leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari has clearly shown commitment to tackling these challenges head on by increased budgetary allocation to the Prison Service.
In his remarks, the Honourable Minister of Interior, Lt Gen Abdulrahman Dambazau, explained that the same prison would be replicated in all the other 5 geo-political zones, hinting that that of the South-South would soon take off in Bori, Rivers State.
The project according to the Honourable Minister is a fall-out of a memo, he presented to the National Economic Council on the state of Nigerian Prisons which bothered on overcrowding and infrastructural decay. He therefore expressed hope that the new project, when completed would meet the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (Mandela Rules).
Highlight of the occasion was the symbolic ground-breaking performed by the Honourable Minister of Interior, assisted by the Representative of the Executive Governor of Kano State, as well as the Emir’s Representative.
The project, when completed will include both Maximum and Medium Prison facilities as well as female wings; Courts, Hospitals, Administrative blocks for the various classes of prisons therein, skills acquisition centres, classrooms, ICT Centres, Rehabilitation Centres for inmates with drug related problems and prison commissary.

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