Date: 2016-11-21

The Kwara State Governor, Al­haji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has called for urgent reforms of the prison system in Ni­geria so that prisons can achieve the role of reforming convicted prisoners before their re-entry into society.

Governor Ahmed made the call on Sunday while receiv­ing the Comptroller-General of Nige­rian Prisons Service (NPS), Mr. Ja'afaru Ahmed, who paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House, Ilorin in the wake of recent deaths of inmates at Nigeria Prison, Oke Kura, Ilo­rin.

Describing the in­cident as unfortunate, the governor noted that the restructur­ing of the prison sys­tem should address the challenges affect­ing administration of prisons in the country especially in the area of infrastructure and prisoner rehabilita­tion.