Security

Agodi Correctional Service Seeks Support for Inmates

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The Nigeria Custodian Service has appealed to organizations and well-meaning Nigerians to support the service in rehabilitating the inmates.

Assistant Controller of Corrections, ACC, Mr Olusola Ayodele, stated this at Agodi, Ibadan while receiving 4 laptops donated by two nongovernmental organizations.

Mr Ayodele, who was represented by Assistant Controller in Charge of Welfare,  Mrs Oluwatosin Otubu, while appreciating the donation, said the Custodian Centre was striving to prepare inmates for life after prison.

Presenting the donation, President Ibadan Descendants Union Houston, USA Alhaja Titilayo Sanusi represented by a member Mrs Yetunde Conrad said NGO wanted to ease the learning of the inmates and enhance the work at the Agodi Correctional Automated Library.

Secretary, the Centre for Gender, Health and Social Rehabilitation, a Nongovernmental organisation,  Mr Taiwo Iyanda, remarked that the life of an inmate should be more than incarceration in view of the global goals and vision of leaving no one behind in education which is a veritable tool for sustainable development.

Funmilola Obagbayegun 

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Crime

Give Ex-Inmates A Second Chance At Life – Correctional Officer

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The society needs to accept and show love to ex-inmates to prevent them from going back to a criminal life.

This was the submission of participants on Focal Point, a discussion program from the stables of Radio Nigeria Ibadan.

The Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Correctional Service, Oyo State, Mr. Olanrewaju Anjorin noted that many of the inmates have been reformed and trained while in custody but it is lack of acceptance from the society that usually frustrates them.

Similarly, a social worker with the Hope for Second Chance Foundation, Mrs. Dorcas Babatunde said the many challenges ex-inmates face such as difficulty accessing housing, getting a job or customers make them feel they do not belong to the society. 

Mrs. Babatunde who said there were few numbers of religious and nongovernmental organizations such as PRAWA and OSIWA, supporting ex-inmates, advocated a robust synergy for easy reintegration. 

The discussants stressed that it is what the society give to the ex-inmates that it gets in return hence the need to give them a second chance.

Anthonia Akanji

Lifestyle

Our goal is to properly integrate prisoners into the society – Nigeria Correctional Service

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Nigeria Correctional Service, Osun State Command says it will continue to serve as a centre of rehabilitation for prisoners for better integration into the society.

The Controller, Nigeria Correctional Service, Osun State Command, Mr Segun Oluwasemilore stated this in Osogbo while playing host to the management of Radio Nigeria Gold FM Ilesa in his office.

Mr Oluwasemilore said the service would partner with the broadcasting organization in the area of enlightenment on its activities.

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He urged Nigerians to desist from criminal acts, sayingit was unprofitable.

In a remark, General Manager, Gold FM, Ilesa, Mr Damola Tinubu expressed the readiness of the station to collaborate with the service in the area of publicity and enlightenment.

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Mr Tinubu noted that Radio Nigeria would continue to maintain its leading role in broadcasting industry in the country as well as promotion of professionalism.

He charged the service to continue provide platform for prisoners through vocational training to make them fit in the society after their jail terms.

Wasiu Ajadosu

Judiciary

Delta CJ Releases 149 Awaiting Trial Inmates

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The Chief Judge of Delta State, Justice Marshal Umukoro, has pronounced the release of one hundred and forty nine inmates awaiting trial at the Warri Custodian Center of the Nigeria Correctional Service.

The prisoners were set free on the occasion of jail delivery at the Warri Prison, where a total of seven hundred and eighty six cases of persons awaiting trial in the facility were reviewed.

Oghewnero Eghweree reports that six persons were also released on bail as part of the exercise to decongest the prison.

His report.

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