The Senate, has summoned the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami; and the Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, over the incessant jailbreaks in the country.<\/p>\n
This followed a Point of Oder raised by Sen. Istifanus Gyang (PDP-Plateau) during plenary<\/p>\n
Gyang came under matter of urgent public importance on \u201cterror attacks on two communities in Plateau North and jailbreak at the Jos Medium Security Correctional Centre Jos, Plateau\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n
The upper chamber also directed its Committee on Interior to invite the Controller-General of Nigeria Correctional Service (NCS), Haliru Nababa.<\/p>\n
It said the invitation was necessary in order to carry out a full scale investigation into the state of correctional centres nationwide.<\/p>\n
Raising Orders 42 and 52 of the Senate Rules, Gyang said nine inmates were killed in the Jos jailbreak, while 252 inmates escaped and reamined large.<\/p>\n
The lawmaker decried the incident, saying that the Jos custodial centre was well fortified and surrounded by major security formations.<\/p>\n
He, therefore, called for the reinforcement of physical protection system and security mechanism at correctional centres by the ministry of interior to forestall further jailbreaks.<\/p>\n
Contributing, Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi, said that correctional centres were the weakest link under the criminal justice system in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have challenges, of course with the police, the judiciary but the correctional centres are the ones in which this country has not made the kind of investment required.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe must look into the entire system of this kind of recurrent attack and look at the entire disposition of our prison system. The prison system is porous.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of the correctional centres were those created since colonial days. About 60 per cent of them were prison systems that were established during the colonial system,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
Similarly, Sen. Rochas Okorocha (APC-Imo) said: \u201cThe issue of insecurity has remained a recurring event that seems to have no solution in spite of all government\u2019s effort, in spite of all the military effort.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat will be the interest of somebody attacking a correctional centre in Jos, could he say it is as a result of poverty or hunger?<\/p>\n
\u201cI think if we do not trace what are the causes of this development, we may be chasing shadows.<\/p>\n
\u201c Time has come that this nation has to retreat and restrategise to find out what is truly causing the insecurity, who is responsible and how did it come about.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
In his remarks, the Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, who presided over plenary said, \u201cwe have a serious issue regarding this security breach.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe question becomes why are we having these challenges? Everything Mr President has requested from the National Assembly by way of funding, we have obliged him.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo the fault is not that of Mr President clearly. But to whom much is given much is also expected.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, having given all of these funding to the security agencies, why are we still having these challenges?<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it is something we need to sleep over. But in the interim, it is clear that we have a serious intelligence gathering gap\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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