70 Percent Of Nigeria’s Prison Population Still Awaiting Trial- Nigeria Prisons Officer

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spokesman for The Nigerian Prisons
Service has stated that of the 56,785
inmates in Nigerian prisons, only 17, 775
had been convicted with the rest awaiting
trial according to a Premium Times report.
Prison Inmates
Public Relations Officer of Nigeria Prisons Service,
Ope Fatinikun, made the statements at a media
briefing and explained that the prisons system was
suffering from inadequate budgetary allotment
from the federal government.
Fatinikun also stated that 10 babies with their
mothers, 947 male juvenile offenders and 151
foreigners were included in the total count as
residents of the congested prison system.
“Our prisons need to be reconstructed as some of
them are in deplorable states. The prisons need to
be completed especially the ones where
construction started over thirty years ago,”
Fatinikun said.
Spokesman Fatinikun also said that the prison
system was lacking in adequate weaponry and
operational provisions in light of serious security
threats to the prison system.
“Our facilities have been attacked and burnt down
and a total of 46 prisons officers comprising 42
serving and four retired personnel have been killed
since the inception of the (Boko Haram)
insurgency,” he said.