President Buhari gives Nigerians the surprise as he reveals that the government will spend N22.4billion feeding inmates in correctional centers nationwide in 2023.

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Dr Shuaib Belgore, disclosed this at a two-day Conference on Decongestion and Corrections Management in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
Belgore stated that the fund was budgeted for in the 2023 Appropriation Act.

He said that there has been a steady rise in the population of the custodial centers with at least 80% of the inmates awaiting trial.

According to him, there are 244 custodial centers nationwide, with a 75,507-inmate population, thereby leading to 82 of them being overcrowded.

He put the total number of male inmates at 73,821 and that females at 1,686.

Out of the 75,507 inmates, 52,436 are awaiting trial while 23,071 are convicted persons, with 3,322 as condemned inmates on death row.

How much of dis money will be looted?

And we wey no commit crime dey without budget.

That money will build 44 standard prison with clinic and educational facility. Nigerians are truly very corrupt!