President Bola Tinubu’s administration has expressed commitment to upgrading and transforming correctional facilities across the country, where inmates can be reformed and transformed.
The minister of interior, Olubunmi Tunji-ojo, disclosed this yesterday while on an assessment tour at the Janguza Correctional Centre in Kano.
He said the correctional centres are a work in progress and that the president’s dream is to build a correctional system based on the principles of reformation, transformation, and rehabilitation.
According to him, the government will leverage this principle to upgrade the system in line with the president’s renewed hope agenda and incorporate it into government programmes to redefine the correctional system.
“It is about creating a correctional system that is reformative, transformational and one that is not condemnatory or destructive. A place where people come and learn so that when they go out, they become better human beings.
“We want a place where people’s lives will be transformed in the national interest, where the rate of restiveness will almost be close to zero, and where the national security architecture can be better enhanced,” he stated.
