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The President of the Nigerian Correctional Officers’ Wives Association, Mrs Ebelechukwu Obiano, has urged the Federal Government to rehabilitate and revive the abandoned Ngwo Borstal Institute successful Enugu State.
Ebelechukwu made the telephone during a sojourn to the installation successful Ngwo, Udi Local Government Area of the state, wherever she expressed interest implicit the deteriorating information of the institute meant for the rehabilitation of juvenile offenders.
She said “the continued abandonment of the installation undermines efforts to betterment young offenders and supply them with the indispensable education, counseling and vocational grooming required for their reintegration into society”.
According to her, “borstal institutions play a captious relation successful addressing younker indiscipline by reforming young offenders and equipping them with skills that would alteration them go productive members of society”.
She truthful called connected the Federal Government done the Federal Ministry of Interior and the Nigerian Correctional Service to urgently rehabilitate the institute and reconstruct it to afloat operation.
Ebelechukwu added that reviving the installation would fortify Nigeria’s juvenile justness strategy and assistance trim transgression among young people.
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