Kaduna NUJ Secures Release Of 10 Inmates From Prison

[Shola Sholaz]

In discharging their social responsibility to the community, the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Kaduna State Council yesterday secured the release of 10 inmates from the Kaduna Prison to mark its Press Week.
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Among the ten released was a teenager, Adamu Ibrahim (18) who was jailed two years with an option of N5000 (five thousand Naira) fine for failing to pay for N300 meal at a restaurant last month.
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The Chairman of NUJ, Kaduna State Council, Comrade Yusuf Idris said the decision to secure the release of these prisoners is to practicalize what NUJ is preaching for wealthy Nigerians to do, so as to decongest prisons in the country.
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Comrade Idris said:" As journalists we know that most at times when we talk about prison and prisoners, the main thing   we call on the government, wealthy individuals or philanthropists to do is to find a way of assisting the government to decongest the prisons, because wherever you go around, Nigerian prisons are congested.
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There is no expansion; there are a lot of criminal activities on a daily basis which means that lots of prisoners are being taken to these prisons and as such we want to say that every effort must be made by individuals to find a way of decongesting the prisons.
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"We want to see prisons as reformative centres, such that there should be some kind of skills that inmates could learn so that at the end of their jail terms, they can come out and be useful to themselves, families and the nation at large", he said.
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The inmates were further   assisted.  financially by Comrade Yusuf Idris who handed them   some token for transportation back to their various destinations after their freedom was secured.
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In his own remark, the Deputy Comptroller of Prison, Kaduna, Williams Ahmadu Bossan applauded the kind gesture of NUJ as according to him; " it is a welcome development as the prison is congested."

[EbukaOkafor14]

Let's just this inmates have learnt their lessons from the prison and are ready to change their ways soonest. They need to do things differently now

[femifemzy3]

So many people find themeselves in prisons this days even when they know nothing about the offence they were charged for. I hope those people would be released

[Nifemi Donald]

Sometimes this inmates get lucky to have a second chance at life and they have to make the best use of it.