3,167 Prisoners On The Death List – NCoS

In all of the country’s detention facilities, 3,167 people are on the death list.

3,105 of the total are men and 62 are women.

Additionally, 339 women have been found guilty, bringing the total number of men found guilty at the various detention facilities to 19,140.

This was revealed on Thursday in Abuja at a briefing on the activities of the service in 2022 by Umar Abubakar, the national public relations officer of the Nigerian Correctional Service.

He said, “As of Monday, we have a total of 74824 inmates across our custodial centers out of which 50955 male are awaiting trial and 1223 females are awaiting trial. 19140 males have been convicted and 339 females have been convicted.
“On inmates on death roll, 62 are female while 3,105 are male.”

Speaking, the Controller General of the Nigeria Correctional Service, Haliru Nababa, said due to the prevalent attacks on the custodial centers, personnel of the service have trained to confront external attacks.

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Represented by the Principal Staff Officer to the Controller General of Corrections, Mamman Salisu, Nababa said more weapons had been acquired and personnel been placed on red alert to avert any attack on the custodial centers.

He said, “Before now our men were trained to prevent attack from within but our men have now been trained in the area of pressing external attacks on our facilities. Arms and ammunition have been procured and distributed and the Presidential directives that anyone who attempts to attack our custodial center should not leave to tell the story. Our men have been put on red alert to gun down anyone who plans to intrude on our custodial Centers. “

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