{"id":73285,"date":"2025-08-15T12:59:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73285"},"modified":"2025-08-15T12:59:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:59:29","slug":"tinubu-era-sees-drop-in-jailbreaks-as-biometric-tracking-gains-ground-tunji-ojo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/15\/tinubu-era-sees-drop-in-jailbreaks-as-biometric-tracking-gains-ground-tunji-ojo\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Era Sees Drop in Jailbreaks as Biometric Tracking Gains Ground -Tunji-Ojo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Interior Minister, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, says jailbreak incidents have declined under President Bola Tinubu, crediting biometric systems for improved inmate tracking.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview, Tunji-Ojo noted that 12 of the country\u2019s 246 custodial centres are undergoing rehabilitation, with many dating back over a century to the colonial era.<\/p>\n<p>Facilities like the Suleja Medium-Security Prison; built in 1914 to hold 250 inmates, now house nearly double that number, heightening overcrowding and security risks.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled the April 2024 Suleja jailbreak, when heavy rains collapsed the perimeter wall and 119 inmates escaped, as a wake-up call for urgent reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Plans include relocating some prisons to safer sites, decongesting facilities, where 67% of inmates are awaiting trial and deploying more technology to strengthen security and operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith Nigeria\u2019s Interior Minister, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, says jailbreak incidents have declined under President Bola Tinubu, crediting biometric systems for improved inmate tracking. Speaking in an interview, Tunji-Ojo noted that 12 of the country\u2019s 246 custodial centres are undergoing rehabilitation, with many dating back over a century to the colonial era. Facilities like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":73286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-73285","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\/73285","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=73285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73287,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73285\/revisions\/73287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}