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NEMA Donates Materials To Kaduna Convict Prison

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), North West Zone, has donated materials worth millions of naira to the Kaduna Convict Prison. While presenting the items … Continue reading NEMA Donates Materials To Kaduna Convict Prison


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NEMAThe National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), North West Zone, has donated materials worth millions of naira to the Kaduna Convict Prison.

While presenting the items to the State Prison Controller in Kaduna on Friday, NEMA Zonal Coordinator, Musa Ilalah, said that the donation was in response to the request by the command and also geared towards making the inmates comfortable while in prison custody.

Ilalah listed the materials donated as 500 mattresses, 500 blankets, bags of detergent, soap, plastic buckets, bags of rice, nylon mats, blankets and mosquito nets.

Other items, according to the NEMA Zonal Coordinator, include plates, cups and spoons.

On receiving the items from NEMA, the Kaduna State Controller of Prisons, Abubakar Talba, commended the agency for the gesture.

Talba said that the donation was the first of its kind since the establishment of the convict prison in 1915. The Controller also used the opportunity to call on corporate organizations, government agencies and individuals to come to the aid of the service by emulating NEMA.

He added that the situation of things in the Kaduna prison had been made worse with suspects awaiting trial swelling the population to over 1,000 inmates from its original capacity of 500.

The Controller attributed the development to delay in the nation’s justice delivery system.

The prison has been faced with so many challenges such as lack of medical facilities, among others.

The prison authorities expressed hope that public spirited individuals and organizations would listen to the plight of the service, and most importantly, the government agencies saddled with the task of overseeing the affairs of the nation’s prisons would live up to their responsibilities.