The Nigeria Correctional Service says about two-thousand-seven-hundred-and-forty-five inmates, who have been condemned to death, are awaiting execution in its facilities across the country.
The Service’s Comptroller General Ja’afaru Ahmed announced this at a media parley and facility tour to Dukpa Farm Centre, Gwagwalada in Abuja.
Ahmed, who was represented by the Service Spokesperson, Francis Enobore, said the reluctance by some State governors to sign death penalty sentence of the condemned inmates was one of the factors contributing to congestion in the Correctional facilities.
He said that the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, ACJA is to hasten the trial of suspects so that Correctional facilities could be decongested.
Ahmed said that not more than 24 States had domesticated the Act, adding that the Act would help decongest the facilities. He urged State governors to do the needful, by helping the centres and freeing it of inmates awaiting execution, in order to de-congest the facilities.
The Comptroller-General also explained that 22 former members of the Boko Haram group, who had been de-radicalised by the correctional service, had sat for the Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE.
