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Port-Harcourt Prison, Built For 804 Inmates, Now Accommodates 4,204 – Dambazau

Interior Minister. Abdulrahman Dambazau (Rtd)

The Minister of Interior, General Abdulrahman Dambazau has lamented that the Port-Harcourt Prison which was built for 804 prisoners is currently accommodating 4,204 inmates.

Dambazau, who spoke when he visited Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State in his office in Port-Harcourt, said that Stakeholders Panel on Prison Decongestion had already recommended Rivers as one of the states from the six geopolitical zones in which 3,000 capacities Prison will be constructed.

According to him, the Federal Government’s proposed Prison Project would be carried out on a land that was allocated to the Prisons Service in 1979 in Bori, Rivers State.

This was even as Governor Wike promised to provide necessary supports and cooperation towards the commencement and completion of the new prison project.

The Governor called on the Federal Government to complete the ongoing construction of a prison at Omoku so that it would decongest other prisons in the state.

The Controller General of Prisons, Ja’afaru Ahmed, told the Governor that the contractor handling Omoku Prison had been contacted to hasten the project for early completion. [myad]