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BY JIDE AYOBOLU<\/div>\n
\n
\nThe Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS)\u2019s shoe and garment factory in
\nAba, Abia State and the Janguza Tannery Factory, Kano, Kano State are
\nset to kick off after the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory
\nCommission (ICRC) handed the service a certificate of compliance. At the
\npresentation of Full Business Case (FBC) Compliance Certificate to the
\nController General of NCoS, Ja\u2019afaru Ahmed, at the NCoS headquarters
\non Wednesday, the ICRC\u2019s Director General, Chidi Izuwah said the
\nfactories will yield at least N5.089 billion investments. He said the
\ntwo factories will save the huge FOREX for importation of uniforms and
\nshoes when they become functional. Izuwah said; \u201cthe project will
\nbring an immediate investment of N5.089 billion made up of 80% debt and
\n20% equity with \u201cZero\u201d financial contribution by the government.<\/p>\n

This would lead to the creation of 1,290 direct jobs, multiples of
\nindirect jobs locally and savings on foreign exchange demand to procure
\nuniforms abroad amongst other significant benefits to the country.\u201d He
\nalso said the proposed PPP arrangement between NSC and Erojim
\nInvestments Limited (a local company) and its technical partner, Poly
\nTechnologies Inc., Beijing, China, is aimed at establishing a
\nworld-class factory, using the most modern technology and quality inputs
\nto produce high quality shoe, garments and leather products to meet the
\ndemand of NCoS and other Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs)
\nwhose personnel wear uniforms and make use of other accessories. Engr.
\nIzuwah listed more benefits of the factories to include: \u201cThe shoe,
\ngarment and tannery factories are the best remedy for unemployment
\nbecause they are labour intensive and create jobs for the masses.\u201d
\nNigerian Correctional Service begins drugs production for inmates Need
\nfor Executive Order to decongest correctional centres According to him;
\n\u201cNigeria\u2019s large population, strategic geographical location, ECOWAS
\nmembership, and government\u2019s incentives for the shoe and garment
\nindustries, makes this investment compelling.\u201d The NCoS Controller
\nGeneral said the two factories are to be built under a public-private
\npartnership under a build, operate and transfer (BOT) arrangement.
\n\u201cThe private investors will run the facilities for 20 years before
\nhanding them over to the service. \u201cThey [Erojim] will have to train
\nour men within that period. \u201cFor now, the profit will be shared 70\/30
\nin favour of Erojim,\u201d he disclosed. However, the contract agreement is
\nto be approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) before it can
\nbecome active.<\/p>\n

President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Nigerian Correctional Service Bill
\ninto law. Former Senior Special Assistant to the President on National
\nAssembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang disclosed this. The Act repeals the
\nNigerian Prisons Service Act. The Nigerian Prisons Service will now be
\ncalled the Nigerian Correctional Service. According to him, the
\nCorrectional Service comprises Custodial and Non-Custodial Service.<\/p>\n

The presidential aide explained that the Non-Custodial Service was
\nintended to be a place of reformation and that the person sentenced
\nunder this will not stay in custody but will have remediation. The
\nPresident, he said, has also signed Federal Universities of Agriculture
\n(Amendment No.2) Act, 2019. On the Nigerian Correctional Service Bill,
\n2019, Enang said: \u201cThis Act repeals the Prisons Acts and changes the
\nname from Nigeria Prisons Service to Nigerian Correctional Service,
\notherwise known as \u2018the Correctional Service\u2019. \u201cThere are,
\naccording to the Act, two main faculties of the Correctional Service,
\nnamely:<\/p>\n

(a) Custodial Service<\/p>\n

(b) Non-custodial Service<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Custodial Service is to: (a) custody and take control of persons
\nlegally interned in safe, secure and humane conditions. (b) Conveying
\nremand persons to and from courts in motorised formations;<\/p>\n

\u201c(c) Identifying the existence and causes of anti-social behaviours of
\ninmates;<\/p>\n

\u201c(d) Conducting risk and needs assessment aimed at developing
\nappropriate correctional treatment methods for reformation,
\nrehabilitation and reintegration;<\/p>\n

\u201c(e) Implementing reformation and rehabilitation programmes to enhance
\nthe reintegration of inmates back into the society.<\/p>\n

\u201c(f) Initiating behaviour modification in inmates through the
\nprovision of medical, psychological, spiritual and counselling services
\nfor all offenders, including violent extremists;<\/p>\n

\u201c(g) Empowering inmates through the deployment of educational and
\nvocational skills training programmes, and facilitating incentives and
\nincome generation through Custodial Centres, farms and industries;<\/p>\n

\u201c(h) Administering borstal and related institutions;<\/p>\n

(I) Providing support to facilitate the speedy disposal of cases of
\npersons awaiting trial.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the Act, in Section 12 (2) (c), further states \u201cthat where an
\ninmate sentenced to death has exhausted all legal procedures for appeal
\nand a period of 10 years has elapsed without execution of the sentence,
\nthe Chief Judge may commute the sentence of death to life
\nimprisonment\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to him, Section 12 (8) empowers the State Controller of the
\nService to reject more intakes of inmates, where it is apparent that the
\ncorrectional centre in question is filled to capacity.<\/p>\n

Enang said non-custodial faculty of the Correctional Service is
\nresponsible for the administration of non-custodial measures, namely:
\nCommunity Service, probation, parole, restorative justice measures and
\nsuch other measures as a court of competent jurisdiction may order.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cRestorative justice measures approved in the Act include
\nvictim-offender mediation, family group conferencing, community
\nmediation and other conciliatory measures as may be deemed necessary
\npre-trial, trial during imprisonment or even post-imprisonment
\nstages.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked the guarantee that the prisoner will get what is due to him, Enang
\nsaid: \u201cBecause the law has stated that the money will be divided into
\nthree places \u2013 the person who produces will take one third, the
\nprisoner will take one third and the last third will go to consolidated
\nrevenue fund of the federation.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Prisons database, he said: \u201cThe thing is when you enter; your
\nparticulars are registered in the prison system. The database cannot be
\nfaulted because it has your fingerprints and other particulars.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe essence of the Bill is to ensure there is enough funding for the
\nservice that will take care of the welfare of the inmates and workers.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, any alleged corrupt practices in terms of ration will be
\neliminated. The Act also provides that the service retains a percentage
\nof what they generate in addition to budgetary provision to work with,
\nso corrupt practices will be eliminated.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Nigerian prisons now known as Nigerian Correctional Services are
\nvery congested, and the development has become a major concern to the
\nprison authorities, the judiciary and the police. Over the years,
\ninmates have outnumbered the capacity of prison cells and facilities at
\nthe prisons are being overstretched. Nigeria has 228 prisons housing 68,
\n259 inmates. 145 prisons are for convicts while 83 serve as satellite
\nprison camps. There are also three Borstal institutions for juvenile
\noffenders. The two types of convicts\u2019 prisons operational in Nigeria
\nare the Maximum and the Medium Security Prisons. The Satellite Prisons
\nare built to serve as intermediate camps for the areas with courts that
\nare far from the main prisons. But the cells in most of the prisons are
\nold and tiny. A recent visit to prisons in Kaduna, Enugu, Oko and Kano
\nrevealed that apart from being old and small, the cells are also
\novercrowded. The Ikoyi Prisons in Lagos State which has capacity for 800
\ninmates currently has over 1,500 people awaiting trial. The Kuje Prisons
\nin Abuja has more than 600 inmates, including 85 convicts and 585
\nawaiting trial.<\/p>\n

Amnesty International, in its 2008 report, declared that Nigeria\u2019s
\nprisons are filled with people whose human rights are systematically
\nviolated. It stated that 65 per cent of the inmates are awaiting trial.
\nMost of them, the organization said, have been waiting on that list for
\nmany years because they are too poor to pay lawyers. It is only one out
\nseven of the people awaiting trial that have private legal
\nrepresentation, the report noted. According to an African Focus bulletin
\nof 2008, the Nigerian Government has not implemented the recommendations
\nof many study groups and presidential committees over the recent years.
\nIt said that few of the promises made by the Nigerian government have
\nbeen carried out and this has led to the current problems being
\nexperienced in the country\u2019s prisons. \u201cThe opening of prisons to
\nnon-governmental organizations has had a positive effect: NGOs bring
\nfood, educational materials and lawyers into the prisons. They organize
\nreligious activities, offer counseling and teach inmates. However, NGOs
\nare not primarily responsible for the welfare of the inmates. It is time
\nthe Nigerian government faced up to its responsibilities for those in
\nits prisons,\u201d the bulletin stated. Studies revealed that those
\nproblems in the prison system still persist today. Some concerned
\nNigerians attributed the upsurge in the congestion of prisons to
\nindiscriminate arrest of innocent citizens by the police.<\/p>\n

This overcrowding could have negative effects on the physical and mental
\nhealth of inmates. Since there are not enough resources to take care of
\ninmates, malnutrition and poor health facilities become prevalent. This
\nalso increases the inmates\u2019 susceptibility to assault among
\nthemselves. In fact, according to amnesty international, Nigeria’s
\nprisons are filled with people whose human rights are systematically
\nviolated. Approximately 65 per cent of the inmates are awaiting trial
\nmost of whom have been waiting for their trial for years. Most of the
\npeople in behind bars are too poor to be able to pay lawyers, and only
\none in seven of those awaiting trial have private legal representation.
\nAlthough governmental legal aid exists, there are too few legal aid
\nlawyers for all the cases that require representation. Living conditions
\nin the prisons\u2019 system are appalling. They are damaging to the
\nphysical and mental well-being of inmates and in many cases constitute
\nclear threats to health. Conditions such as overcrowding, poor
\nsanitation, lack of food and medicines and denial of contact with
\nfamilies and friends fall short of UN standards for the treatment of
\nprisoners. The worst conditions constitute ill-treatment. In many
\nNigerian prisons inmates sleep two to a bed or on the floor in filthy
\ncells. Toilets are blocked and overflowing or simply nonexistent, and
\nthere is no running water. As a result, disease is widespread.<\/p>\n

Most prisons have small clinics or sick bays which lack medicines, and
\nin many prisons inmates have to pay for their own medicines. Guards
\nfrequently demand that inmates pay bribes for such \u201cprivileges\u201d as
\nvisiting the hospital, receiving visitors, contacting their families
\nand, in some cases, being allowed outside their cells at all. Prisoners
\nwith money may be even allowed mobile phones, whereas those without
\nfunds can be left languishing in their cells. One inmate said: “If you
\ndon’t have money, if you come to prison, you will suffer. They collect
\nmoney from you. It is not right.” The Nigerian government has, on
\nnumerous occasions, stated its willingness to reform the criminal
\njustice system, acknowledging its role in creating a situation of
\nprolonged detention and overcrowding. Despite many Presidential
\nCommissions and Committees recommending reform of the criminal justice
\nsystem, these recommendations have not been implemented. Instead, the
\ngovernment has simply set up new committees and commissions to study,
\nreview and harmonize the previous recommendations. The reality remains
\nthat those in prison stand little chance of their rights being
\nrespected. Those who lack money stand even less chance.<\/p>\n

All too often, individuals who are not suspected of committing any crime
\nare incarcerated in Nigeria’s prisons along with those suspected or
\nconvicted of crimes. Some were arrested in place of a family member whom
\nthe police could not locate. Others suffer from mental illness and were
\nbrought to prison to relieve their families of responsibility for their
\ncare. Most are very poor people who have no lawyer to advocate for them.
\nThe Nigerian Constitution (Section 35) guarantees the right to be
\nbrought before a court of law within a reasonable time. If there is a
\ncourt of competent jurisdiction within 40km, a reasonable time is
\ndefined as one day; in all other cases \u201creasonable\u201d is considered to
\nbe two days or longer, depending on the distances and circumstances.\u00a0 In
\npractice, this is hardly ever accomplished. The Nigeria Police Force
\nclaim they cannot investigate a crime and interrogate suspects within
\nsuch a short time, saying: \u201cThere is no case that you can crack within
\n24 hours unless it is a traffic offence.<\/p>\n

It is important to note that, Amnesty International concludes that
\nNigeria does not take seriously its responsibility towards its citizens
\nin prison. Recommendations made by national and international
\norganizations have failed to lead to any action by the government. The
\nrecommendations of all governmental committees and commissions appear to
\nbe little more than words, which have left the real situation in
\nNigeria’s prisons unchanged. Inmates awaiting trial \u2013 especially those
\nwho cannot afford legal support \u2013 wait years for their trial to take
\nplace; the prisons remain overcrowded; prison authorities do not appear
\nto receive the funds that have been allocated to improving conditions.
\nAmnesty International is extremely concerned that few of the Nigerian
\ngovernment’s promises have been translated into action.<\/p>\n

However, with the proposed introduction of state governments building
\ncorrectional facilities in Nigeria is a welcome development; it would
\nhelp in no small to decongest the overcrowded and overstretched existing
\nfacilities. It is only in this situation that the prison system will be
\na corrective facilities and not make a place that makes criminal more
\nhardened and not amenable to correction, therefore, the government
\nshould expedite action on the subject matter so that, the several
\nproblems associated with the prison system in the country can be quickly
\ntaken care off.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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