The Senate Committee on Interior, has called on the Nigeria Prisons Service to do everything possible to end what it described as incessant jail breaks the country to avoid being decentralised.
The committee’s Chairman, Senator Bagudu Atiku, disclosed yesterday during the committee oversight function to the NPS national headquarters, expressing worry that the issue of jail breaks in the country was becoming too many that it requires the Service to urgently think of how to end to it. He said that if Nigerians mounted pressure on the National Assembly, the Senate might consider the decentralisation of the Service as was done to Police.
While commiserating with the management over the death of some of its staff, Bagudu told the management to always open up to the Senate on their challenges. The committee said they were visiting the Service to know it position on a proposal that Nigeria Prison Service should be removed from exclusive list and taken to concurrent list.
Reacting, the Comptroller General, Zakari Ibrahim, said that his agency had discovered that they could not tackle the issue of jail breaks alone, and they have resulted to collaboration between other agencies for sharing of information.
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