The Federal Government has asked state governors to establish their own correctional services and also build their custodial centres, saying that the law has empowered them to do so.
Speaking at a two-day conference on Decongestion and Corrections Administration in Abuja on Thursday, the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, lamented that the congestion of custodial centres had taken a toll on the finances of the Federal Government.
The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Interior, Shuaib Belgore, had disclosed that the Federal give earmarked twenty two point four four billion naira to feed inmates in all the custodial centres across the country.
Belgore said Ninty percent of inmates in the custodial facilities were arrested and being prosecuted by state governments.
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