Nigeria’s Interior Minister Rauf Aregbesola said it is essential to display President Muhammadu Buhari’s tangible achievements.

The minister stated that President Buhari is a visionary leader who has improved the fortunes of the less privileged in the country.

The minister said the President had shown commitments to the welfare of Nigerians through various efforts and initiatives.

According to him, one of such achievements is the approval of 3,000-capacity Custodian Centre each in the six geo-political zones of the country.

According to The Nation, Aregbesola said this while speaking at the presentation of the Correctional Service centre at Karshi in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

he said, “Today, we are not doing ground-breaking but we are presenting to Nigerians the concrete achievements of the present administration under the able leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari”.

The minister mentioned that the Nigerian Correctional Service has long been neglected that its facilities that were used to house prisoners had become neglected and overcrowded.

“It is on record, ladies and gentlemen, that our administration under the able leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari, has accorded attention to the Nigerian Correctional Service and indeed other agencies under my ministry, much more than any previous governments in the country, he said.

“The interventions are in all fronts – funding, logistics, infrastructure, human resource development and legal framework culminating in the recent enactment of the Nigerian Correctional Service Act, 2019.

I dare say that more positive reforms and interventions are forthcoming,”  Aregbesola said.

He added that the projects were “borne out of the need to address the deplorable state of structures in the various custodial centres, most of which were old, over-stretched, dilapidated and overcrowded and largely lacking humane conditions and platform for reformation and rehabilitation of inmates”.

Aregbesola said: “The strategies are also in line with the avowed commitment of President Buhari’s administration to improve the fortunes of the less privileged members of the society, including those behind bars.

“There is no denying that our about 250 facilities are inadequate to house the over 74,000 inmates in our custody presently. Indeed, one major concern about our correctional institution is inadequate housing for inmates,” he added.