Following series of attempted jailbreak, the federal government has banned the use of telephones in prisons. It has also barred indecent dressing.
It said henceforth, no inmate or official would be allowed access to telephones.
The Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro, gave the warning at the weekend in Abuja during a meeting with the senior officers of the Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS).
“I have visited some prisons. Nobody, no matter how highly placed, will be allowed to enter the prison with his phone, not even the minister of Interior,” he said.
“You have one month to recover the phones in inmates’ possession.”
It would be recalled that an attempt to carry out jailbreak at the Medium Security Prison Kirikiri, Lagos on Friday October 10 was fouled.
Spokesperson of the prison service, Mr. Ope Fatiniku had described the incident as a “riot”.
One person died, while more than seven other inmates were injured.
The episode was one of other incidents recorded in 2014.
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