As part of efforts to reform the country prison, the Federal Executive Council (FEC), during its weekly meeting yesterday approved a contract of 2.8 billion naira for the installation of a digital web-based integrated system to fast-track prisons decongestion across the country. The approval was granted during the FEC meeting, presided over by the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN at the State House, Abuja.
Briefing State House journalists at the end of the meeting, the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, said the contract was to improve the country’s justice system and decongest the prisons.
He said the idea was to digitally connect all the prison formations to the office of the attorney general of the federation, the police, prison service and indeed selected courts.
“The office of the attorney general presented a memo today, which is web-based automated inter-connectivity system, which is a digitalized way of decongesting the prisons,” he said.
