Oluremi Tinubu, senator representing Lagos Central Senatorial District has advocated a special care for pregnant women and children that age three and below.
Tinubu pushed her case during a public hearing on prisons reform across Nigeria on Thursday 15 February at the upper chamber.
Senators present at the public hearing on the Prisons Reform are Senators Oluremi Tinubu, Jide Omoworare, Clifford Ordia, Andrew Uchendu, Nafada Bayero and Senator Andy Uba, chairman Senate committee on Interior.
Tinubu also called for different facilities for men and women, stressing that, some Non Governmental Organisations are willing to also assist in this regard.
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“There should be establishment of separate prison facilities for the women, the female prison should be separated physically with a certain distance from the male prison.”
Senator Clifford Ordia added his voice to the prisons reform. “Present condition of our prisons is a national embarrassment, there’s a need for Prison Service Commission so they will function better than they are now.”
Reacting to Tinubu, the Controller General of Nigerian Prisons Services, Ahmed Ja’afaru said, “We have 2,281 condemned inmates nationwide who have exhausted their appeals and are awaiting the death penalty but the governors are not willing to sign their death warrants which is causing congestion in the prisons.”
