{"id":62191,"date":"2025-03-05T14:32:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62191"},"modified":"2025-03-05T14:32:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:32:52","slug":"interior-minister-declares-war-on-prison-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/05\/interior-minister-declares-war-on-prison-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Interior Minister Declares War on Prison Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jesusemen Oratokhai\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has declared a zero-tolerance stance on corruption in Nigeria\u2019s correctional centres, vowing to transform them from punishment camps to true rehabilitation facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Abuja on Wednesday at a public hearing on alleged corruption within the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS), Tunji-Ojo condemned the deep-seated rot in the system and pledged sweeping reforms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The core duty of a correctional officer is to rehabilitate, restore, and reform; not condemn,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The minister stressed that correctional centres should empower inmates through education, vocational training, and mental health support, rather than perpetuate cycles of abuse and neglect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not 1825! Being incarcerated does not make anyone less human.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Under President Bola Tinubu&#8217;s leadership, he assured that correctional officers would receive adequate resources, training, and funding to carry out their duties effectively.<\/p>\n<p>Vowing to purge the system of corrupt officials profiting from inmates&#8217; suffering, he declared:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My responsibility is to move those benefiting from a corrupt system to the path of perpetual unhappiness.<\/p>\n<p>Tunji-Ojo urged the investigative panel to conduct a thorough probe into prison corruption.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jesusemen Oratokhai\u00a0 The Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has declared a zero-tolerance stance on corruption in Nigeria\u2019s correctional centres, vowing to transform them from punishment camps to true rehabilitation facilities. Speaking in Abuja on Wednesday at a public hearing on alleged corruption within the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS), Tunji-Ojo condemned the deep-seated rot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62193,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62191\/revisions\/62193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}