Don Wants FG To Tackle Rot In Prisons

A lecturer, Dr. Kenneth Nweke, has called on the Federal Government to tackle the rot in the Nigerian Prisons, and what he called the monumental corruption among officials of the service.
Recalling that President Buhari recently assented to a bill changing the Nigerian Prison Service to Nigerian Correctional Service. Nweke said changing the name of the agency will be a mere window dressing, if nothing is done to address the structural decay in the prisons.
Nweke, who is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt made the call during a chat with newsmen in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital noted that corruption among prison officials is worrisome.
According to him, “ changing the name ordinarily for me, is mere window dressing by the federal government if it is not going to add any value to the existing decay that we find in Nigerian prison service.
”Would it also change the characters of the human beings that are working in the Nigerian prison in terms of bribery and corruption that goes on there?
”Is it going to change the state of the prison? Because merely changing the name to what you think it should be in terms of delivery to something that is real. Because for me, it amounts to merely addressing issues on the surface without fundamentally looking at what the issues are.

Dennis Naku