Kuje Prison Attack: Our prisons not built to withstand terrorist attacks – Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Correctional Service

 

Haliru Nababa, Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Correctional Service has said that jails the nation over were not built to endure fear terrorist attacks.

Talking on Premium Times Twitter space on Monday July 11, days after suspected terrorists went after Kuje prison and liberated a few prisoners, Nababa conceded that they got knowledge on conceivable assault yet the information was not narrowed down to the Kuje Custodial Center.

He said he boosted the security on ground across jails in the region however the limit was adequately not enough.

Focusing on the need to strengthen the jail facilities with exceptionally talented work force as well as with new designs that could endure the recent fad of crime in the country, he added that they additionally need the deployment of ICT.

Nababa said;

“The jail attacks are new to us since the emergence of ENDSARS. The NCS lacks the personnels. We need the deployment of ICT to see how we can ensure the prevention of the occurrences and the completion of the 3,000 capacity of Custodial centers in the six geographical political zones.

“The NCS infrastructure is not built to withstand this new trend of crime that is facing us but the 3,000 capacity will go a long way to forestall some of these attacks and then the procurement of operations vehicles because our guns cannot withstand what those people come with.”