The Controller General of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS), Haliru Nababa, said the country’s prisons are not enhanced sufficiently to withstand the kind of attacks they have been subjected to in recent times.?
He revealed this on Premium Times’ Twitter Spaces held on Monday to communicate the implications of jailbreaks on the nation’s security.?
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Despite intelligence reportedly submitted earlier, Kuje Medium Prison was ambushed last week by ISWAP with high explosives to free their members from fulfilling jail terms in the facility.?
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The attack oversaw the escape of over 800 inmates though a few of them have been recaptured in the last three days.?
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With Nababa on the spot, the discussion, which lasted for close to two hours, addressed some of the concerns of specialists and Nigerians on the increasing terrorist attacks in the country.?
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While fielding questions from participants on the spaces, the NCS Chief acknowledged that they received intelligence on the possible attack but the message was not narrowed down to the Kuje Custodial Centre.?
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He said he improved the security on the ground across prisons in the region but the capacity was not enough.?
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Nababa emphasized the need to fortify the prison facilities not only with highly skilled personnel but also with new configurations that could overcome the new trend of crime in the country.?
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“The jail attacks are new to us since the emergence of ENDSARS. The NCS lacks employees. We need the deployment of ICT to see how we can ensure the prevention of the incidents and the completion of the 3,000 capacity Custodial centers in the six geographical political zones.?
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“The NCS infrastructure is not designed to combat 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 survive what those people come with,” he explained.?
