The Controller General Nigerian Correctional Service (NcoS) Haliru Nababa has disclosed that over 5,000 of the current total of over 80,000 inmates in the country are on death row mostly by hanging.
He made this known on Tuesday in Abuja at the launch of the ‘Court Administration and Management and Case Management and The Reforming Pre-Trial Detention in Nigeria Phase II Projects’ organised by the Public and Private Development Center (PPDC) and United State Government.
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Nababa represented by Assistant Controller General (ACG), Custody, of the NcoS, Gimba Manu Dumbulwa, also said that they have waited for decades without their sentences being carried out due to the non-signing by state governors and other authorities reluctant to sign their death warrants which he said is contributing to prison congestion.
“Somebody who is sentenced to death by hanging, some have stayed for 10 years, 15 years and even 20 years in custody while their death sentence has not been signed by the governors,” he said.
He also said that of 51,076 of the awaiting trial inmates, 49,843 are males while the remaining 1,233 are females.
