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December 19, 2019
The Nigeria Correctional Service says about two-thousand-seven-hundred-and-forty-fiveinmates, who have been condemned to death, are awaiting execution in itsfacilities across the country.
The Service’s Comptroller General Ja’afaru Ahmed announcedthis at a media parley and facility tour to Dukpa Farm Centre, Gwagwalada inAbuja.
Ahmed, who was represented by the Service Spokesperson,Francis Enobore, said the reluctance by some State governors to sign deathpenalty sentence of the condemned inmates was one of the factors contributingto 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 couldbe decongested.
Ahmed said that not more than 24 States had domesticated theAct, adding that the Act would help decongest the facilities. He urged Stategovernors to do the needful, by helping the centres and freeing it of inmatesawaiting execution, in order to de-congest the facilities.
The Comptroller-General also explained that 22 former membersof the Boko Haram group, who had been de-radicalised by the correctionalservice, had sat for the Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE.