FG begins training for staff of correctional service

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BY ABDULKADIR M. LAWAN, MARCH 02, 2022 | 02:35 PM


Federal Government of Nigeria has commenced training of 100 officers of the Nigerian Correctional Service on basics of handling inmates.

The three months training which started on Tuesday for Deputy Superintendent of Prisons, DSPs holds at the newly inaugurated Nigeria Correctional Service Training College, Makera in Kebbi.

Hamisu Isa, commandant of the college said the participants were drawn from various commands of the service and would undergo a three-month training in the college.

According to Isa, the training will also enable the officers to acquire leadership skills.

‘The service is now concerned with how to correct inmates on wrongdoings unlike in the past where inmates were subjected to all forms of hard labor, stone breaking, cutting of grasses, firewood collection and a host of others are some of the punitive measures, which are no longer part of the service.

‘Government also realized that it’s only a waste of time feeding criminals and at the end, they go back to the same crime hence, the decision for the new reform,’ he said.

While commending the development, Governor Abubakar Atiku Badaru, expressed his government’s commitment to assist the service where necessary.

He said his government had demonstrated commitment by donating a secondary school instead of a piece of land requested by the service for the establishment of the training college.

The governor was represented by his chief of staff, Suleiman Muhammad Argungu.


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