Buhari Approves Decongestion Of Nigeria Prisons
March 28, 2020
7:17 am
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the decongestion of Correctional Service formations due to coronavirus.
Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, stated that the President was concerned that around seventy percent of the inmates were awaiting trial.
Umar Jibrilu, Malami’s spokesman, in a statement Friday night, recalled that Buhari had constituted a Presidential Committee for the Decongestion of the Correctional Centers.
The Committee, coordinated by the Federal Ministry of Justice, has Malami as Chairman.
Members are Chief Justice of the FCT and the Comptroller General of
