Nigeria to investigate Ilorin Prison riot

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The Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau has ordered an investigation into reported inmate’s riots at Oke Kura Prison, Ilorin, Kwara State on Thursday, 17th November, 2016 which reportedly claimed six inmates in the condemned Prisoners cell, while many others sustained injuries.

The Minister's Press Secretary, Osaigbovo Ehisienmen said in a statement on Tuesday that Dambazau was worried at the ugly development, stressing that he had directed an Intra-Ministerial Committee to work closely with Nigeria Prisons’ management team with a view to unraveling the remote circumstance surrounding the incident, with a view to avoiding a repeat of such in any of the nation’s penitentiary and to sanction any official found culpable.

He said the Minister had maintained his stance on the need to adhere to the United Nation Minimum Standards for the Treatments and Rehabilitation of Prison inmates including condemned Prisoners in line with the Mandela Rules.
"Findings overtime have shown that such riot involving condemned criminals has been as a result of frustration of being on death row for a period of 10yrs or more," he quoted the minister has saying.

"Moreover, a Prison that was built in 1914, with 121 inmates capacity now accommodating 417, is bound to create difficulties in management. Government has therefore embarked on reconstructing old Prisons, while also building new Prison facilities in some locations."

The Minister assured that he will retool the Country’s Prison Service, to effectively play its pivotal role of Reforming, Rehabilitating and Reintegrating transformed inmates back to the society in this connection, while ensuring that the rights of Prisoners are well protected.

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