The Senate, on Tuesday, expressed displeasure over the frequent jailbreaks witnessed across the country in the past few years.
The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, lamented that many jailbreaks had occurred after what he called a deceitful change of name from Nigeria Prisons Service to Nigeria Correctional Service.
Akpabio spoke during the consideration of a bill for the amendment to the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission Act.
He stated, “Since the adoption of that name, we have had more jailbreaks,” adding that “Laws are meant to punish and to correct. If by the time you are convicted and you are sent to prison, you are even meant to learn a skill and ethical reorientation and all that. It is not only when we specifically call it a correctional centre and yet we are not correcting anything.
