28 inmates acquire computer skills in Ogun

Twenty-eight inmates of the Old Abeokuta Custodial Centre successful Ibara, Ogun State on Friday graduated from a basal machine skills grooming programme.

The grooming was portion of efforts by the NCS to equip inmates with applicable skills that would assistance them go productive aft leaving custody.

The State Controller of Corrections, Abioye Kamarudeen Adesina, who spoke astatine the graduation ceremony, said the programme, organised by the Centre for Legal Support and Inmate Rehabilitation (CELSIR), successful concern with Kastenbeelo Computer Training Institute, was designed to hole inmates for beingness aft incarceration.

According to him, machine cognition would springiness the inmates amended chances of earning a surviving and becoming self-reliant erstwhile they instrumentality to their communities.

He said rehabilitation remained a halfway mandate of the Correctional Service, stressing that inmates indispensable beryllium fixed opportunities to larn skills that could assistance them physique amended lives.

The Controller called for accrued enactment from NGOs, backstage organisations and different stakeholders to fortify rehabilitation and reintegration efforts.

According to him, much partnerships would assistance supply further training, instrumentality and different resources needed to hole inmates for palmy reintegration.

Adesina urged the graduating inmates to marque ...