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The Federal government has expressed its readiness to partner with relevant stakeholders to decongest correctional facilities in Nigeria.

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The Minister of Interior, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, made the disclosure during a round-table conversation with Prisoner Rehabilitation and Welfare Action (PRAWA) and representatives of donors participating development agencies in Abuja.

Aregbesola said that correctional centres in the country are highly congested with inmates awaiting trials, those on death rolls, those unable to pay debt and fines and some on minor offences.

According to the minister, the people in jail houses as first offenders are less than 20%.

He appreciated the stakeholders for their support and implored them to collaborate with the federal government by contributing not only financially but technically and intellectually in order to decongest the custodial centers.

He said that most of the inmates currently in custody are those who committed state offences, which the president has no right to release, revealing that the president has approved a bill that moves Correctional Service to concurrent list.

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