The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has revealed that, as part of the ministry’s shift from incarceration to reformation and rehabilitation, 4,767 inmates enrolled for adult education programmes in 2022.
Aregbesola added that 1,704 inmates sat for West African Senior School Certificate Examination and 634 of them passed.
The minister stated this when he inaugurated an office complex for the Nigeria Correctional Service in Avu, Owerri, on Friday.
He said, with the removal of custodial centres from the exclusive list, states should invest in corrections, particularly rehabilitation and reintegration of inmates.
According to him, the complex would provide a good working environment for officers and men of the command, which would in turn translate to greater national security.
He said the NCoS had, in recent weeks, inaugurated similar projects in Osun and Rivers with expectations that its six custodial villages, one in each geopolitical zone, would soon be completed.
