Respite is set to come the way of some unemployed Nigerians as the leadership of the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS), said it has obtained waiver from the federal government to employ 6,545 personnel soon.
If this goal is achieved, the new intakes will be deployed to fit into different cadre of the service. This is even as the service also disclosed that it has provided N6 billion in the 2017 budget for the recruitment.
This was recently disclosed by the Comptroller General (CG) of the NPS, Mr Jaffaru Ahmed while defending his agency’s budget in the House of Representatives. According to Ahmed, the service had inadequate personnel, which prompted the request for waiver from the federal government to enable the service carry out recruitment.
On the 2017 budget, Ahmed explained that N72.3 billion was proposed out of which N37.5 was earmarked for personnel with N19 billion for overhead and N16 billion for feeding of inmates and dogs. He said that the service would embark on mechanised agriculture to enable prisoners produce enough food to feed themselves.
He said “We intend to set up specialised farm centres to train prisoners and to boost food production and make prisoners able to feed themselves.” According to him, the service spends over N16 billion each year to feed about 72,000 inmates in the country.
Source: Leadership
