Senate Moves To Increase Cost Of Feeding Inmates

The Senate Committee on Interior has moved to step up the daily cost of feeding prisoners in Nigerian Correctional centres. Information Guide Nigeria

The issue was raised yesterday by Mr Haliru Nababa, the Comptroller General of Nigerian Correctional Service` (NCS) when he presented the 2022 budget of the Correctional Service to the committee.

In response, the committee said that there are 66,340 prisoners in correctional centres across the nation, out of which about 47,559 are yet to be convicted and are awaiting trial. jamb results

They thus expressed concern about the welfare of inmates especially their feeding.

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Not satisfied, the Committee Chairman, Senator Kashim Shettima and members of the committee reacts to the N750 daily feeding cost.

Senator Utazi, therefore, made a move on behalf of the committee, saying N750 going by the value of Naira today and high costs of consumables is too low.

According to CHANNELS TV, in Utazi’s words: “Mr Chairman, I will urge this committee to jerk up the proposed N750 feeding cost per day on each of the inmates at the custodian centres to at least N1,000.00 because no grown-up Nigeria today can survive with N750 per day as far as feeding is concerned,” he said.

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