Independent panel calls for digitisation, staff welfare reforms in Nigeria Correctional Service

The study of the Independent Panel investigating the Nigeria Correctional Service has highlighted captious reforms needed to fortify the country’s correctional system, with a beardown accent connected digitisation and unit welfare.

This formed the absorption of discussions connected Good Morning Nigeria, a flagship programme connected the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), wherever members of the sheet appeared arsenic guests.

A subordinate of the panel, Dr. Ikechukwu Ezeugo, stressed the urgent request to digitise inmate records crossed correctional facilities nationwide, describing it arsenic a captious measurement towards modernising the system.

“The adoption of integer record-keeping volition importantly heighten efficiency, amended information management, and fortify transparency wrong our correctional facilities,” helium said.

Ezeugo noted that the existent manual processes lend to delays, information inconsistencies, and constricted accountability, challenges helium said could beryllium addressed done a centralised integer system.

Also speaking, the president of the panel, Dr. Magdalene Ajana, called for contiguous improvements successful the payment and moving conditions of correctional personnel.

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