The Federal Government, weekend,
gave Nigeria Prison Service 30 days ultimatum to withdraw all telephones from
inmates and prisons officials in prisons nationwide.
Minister of Interior, Abba Moro,
gave this ultimatum during an interactive meeting with senior officers of the
Nigerian Prisons Service in Abuja.
The minister said the order also
included indecent dressing by inmates, adding henceforth, no inmate should be
allowed to wear their choice of clothes or shoes, no matter how highly placed.
He said: “I have visited some
prisons in other countries as the Minister of Nigeria, nobody, no matter highly
placed, you don’t come to prison with your phones, not even the Minister of
Interior or the supervising minister over the prisons. So, why are you an
exception?
“Henceforth, no matter who you are,
including myself, nobody goes into prison with telephones. And so, there should
be a platform where all the officers submit their phones on arrival at work and
collect them when they close.
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