The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has distributed trade tools to discharged inmates that covered six vocations to make them self-reliant.
The Service also distributed drugs to various formations of the NCoS to cater for the healthcare and needs of the inmates.
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The Controller General, NCoS, Mr Haliru Nababa, said this during the flag-off of the third quarter drug distribution on Wednesday in Abuja.
The trade tools distributed in the six vocations are tailoring, barbing, carpentry, welding, hairdressing and laundry.
Nababa said the tools will usher the ex-offenders into a more qualitative phase of life as gainfully employed persons and employers of labour.
“At this juncture, I wish to call on all the beneficiaries to justify government’s huge investments in providing these tools by working hard and being worthy ambassadors of the NCoS, never returning to the way of crime,” he said.
The CG appealed to members of the public to give ex-offenders a soft landing by allowing them to fully reintegrate into society.
Distributing the drugs, Nababa said the healthcare of inmates was one of the topmost priorities of the service, noting that there had been tremendous improvement in healthcare delivery to inmates.
He said while buildings, hospitals and clinics were renovated, ambulances, water tankers and sewage trucks were also purchased; creating health awareness among staff members and inmates.
“True to the saying that ‘prevention is better than cure,’ the proactive disposition of NCoS to health matters has remained key in preventing the outbreak of epidemics like cerebrospinal meningitis, cholera and COVID-19 in custodial Centres,” he said.
Nababa expressed gratitude to President Muhammadu Buhari and the Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, for giving the NCoS premium attention, thereby repositioning it for optimal service.
