Controller-General of Prisons, Dr. Peter Ekpendu
Thirty-one inmates of the Kuje Prison, Abuja, who sat for the 2014
NOV/DEC Senior Secondary School Examination have been presented their
certificates at the facility by a representative of the
Controller-General of Prisons, DCP Musa Tanko.
The inmates were sponsored by a non-governmental organisation, NUGA BEST, which paid for their enrollment for the examinations.
Tanko reiterated the commitment of the
Nigerian Prisons Service to humane confinement, reformation and
rehabilitation of inmates.
He stated that assisting inmates to have
access to educational opportunities at all levels was one notable way of
keeping alive their hope of a successful return to the larger society.
He observed that Kuje Prison had
continued to record impressive inmates’ participation in external
examinations since the programme started in 2010, adding that close to
41 inmates have enrolled for various degree programmes in the National
Open University of Nigeria Special Study Centre in the prison.
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