No More Indecent Dressing In Prisons–FG

**Bans Use Of Phones

Henceforth, prison officials and inmates would not be allowed to make use of mobile phones, the Federal Government has directed.

This directive was given by the Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, when some top shots in the Nigeria Prison Service, NPS, visited him in Abuja on Saturday.

Moro also frowned at indecent dressing by some prison inmates. He also ordered that henceforth, no inmate, no matter how highly placed, should be allowed to wear any other dress apart from the one provided by the prison authorities.

The Minister further said the prison authorities have 30 days to recover all phones from inmates and prison officials. He said prison officials should always submit their mobile phones at the entrance and get them back when leaving.

“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,” he said.

Furthermore, Moro explained that, “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.”

“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,” the Minister threatened.

Minister’s quotes from Punch