Umaru Tanko Al-Makura
Mr Tim Yigga, Nasarawa State Commissioner for Information has called on inmates in the state not to conceive the idea of embarking on jail break.
Yigga made the call while addressing inmates at Keffi on Saturday, when he led a team, set up by the state government to inspect prisons facilities in the state. He said the call had become imperative due to incessant jail breaks experienced in some prisons across the country in the recent past. The commissioner appealed to the inmates not to see their imprisonment as the end of life, saying that they can come out and still be better persons if they amend their ways. “All you need to do while you are here, is to continue to obey the rules guiding your conduct in the prison yard and respect the officers looking after your welfare. “Do not do anything that would hurt these officers because they are not the one that brought you here; their own responsibility is to look after you and your welfare. “For the fact that you are here today, you can come out one day and become the President of this country if God destined it to be so,’’ he said. He, however, said the visit was to inspect facilities in all the six prisons in the state and study the cases of the inmates for the purposes of making recommendation to the state government. He, therefore, assured the inmates that the committee would make recommendation on the improvement of the facilities and release of some of them. Also, Nasarawa State Controller of Prisons, Ekwere Ekanem, decried the congestion of inmates, shortage of mattresses and plates in the prison. Ekanem said that due to the shortage of plates inmates were given food in batches. He also lamented the lack of constant water supply in the Keffi and Nasarawa prisons and call on government and other spirited individuals to assist by providing boreholes. Earlier, the Controller of Keffi Prisons, James Landen, decried the bad nature of road leading to the prison and encroachment in the land belonging to the prison by people. He, therefore, threatened to take legal action against those encroaching in the lands belonging to the prisons service. Landen called on the relevant authority to come to the aid of the prison to help it reclaim its land and prevent further encroachment. (NAN)
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