The Controller-General of Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS), Ja’afaru Ahmed, has said the service can now reject prisoners following its restructuring.
Speaking at a press conference at the Service headquarters in Abuja on Thursday, the Controller-General said the Act establishing the NCS had given it the right to turn back prisoners following the overcrowding of prisons in the country.Prisons all over the country have a total of 73, 102 inmates in custody as at 2nd September, 2019 with 50, 216 of then still awaiting trial.
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