Another day, different law! The Federal Government has banned the use of
mobile phones in all the prison formations by inmates and prison
officials. It also directed the Nigerian Prison Service authorities to
recover all handsets from inmates within 30 days.
Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, who handed down
the order on Saturday in Abuja, during an interactive meeting with the
senior officers of the Prison Service, decried indecent dressing by the
inmates.
He stated that no inmate should be allowed to wear their choice of clothes or shoes, as is the practice presently, “no matter highly placed they may be.”
Moro said, “I have visited some prisons in other
countries as the Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; Nobody, no
matter highly placed you are, you don’t come to prison with your
phones, not even the minister of Interior as the supervising minister
over the prisons. So, why are you an exception?
“Henceforth, no matter who you are including
myself, that nobody goes into prison with telephones. And so, as you are
going from here, create a meeting platform where all the officers that
work in the prisons as they walk into prisons, they submit their phones
and collect them when they close.
“Secondly, it means that you have one month to
recover all the phones in the custody of inmates across the prison
formations. Within one month, all prison formation must recover all
telephones from inmates.”
The minister threatened to deal with the NPS
management if it failed to carry out the directive, adding that he would
know if the phones were not recovered from the inmates as ordered.
“Don’t forget that I will know if you fail to do
this, because we have various agencies in Nigeria that are tracking
telephone usages and MTN and other service providers could make
available such facilities. The consequence of not doing this, you should
already know,” he told the senior prison officials.
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