The Nigerian Correctional Service, NCOS has set up a special security team to strengthen security around Custodial centres across the country.
Spokesperson of the Service Francis Enobore in a statement said the Controller General Haliru Nababa made this known after a meeting with the Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC Abubakar Audi and the Acting Comptroller General, of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS Idris Jere.
Nababa added that the meeting was centered on strengthening intelligence gathering and sharing of same among security operatives to nip attacks in the bud.
The Controller General recalled that the Minister of Interior Rauf Aregbesola had on December 9 during the ministerial retreat held in Ilorin, Kwara, directed security agencies under the Ministry of Interior to work together as a family in the area of intelligence gathering, sharing and physical confrontation with jail attackers.
Responding, Audi, lauded the initiative and promised to task all State Commandants of his Service to gear up for the onerous task. He added that this would include protecting custodial centres that were now designated as critical national infrastructure being the last agency in the actualisation of criminal justice dispensation in Nigeria.
