[NEWS] Kano governor wants FG to transfer prisons management to states

Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has urged the Federal Government to transfer the management of prisons to states.

Ganduje, who spoke in Kano on Tuesday, said that the measure would ensure “a permanent solution” to prison congestion.

The News Agency 0f Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ganduje made the request when the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, led the Prison Reform and Decongestion Committee on a courtesy visit to him.

“A permanent solution to the issue of prison congestion will be to transfer the prisons to the states.

“If the administration of the prisons is under the states, governors will have free access to the prisons and determine what to do based on their actual realities,” he said.

He said that the Kano government would soon forward a memorandum to the National Assembly on the need for a constitutional review to allow the transfer of prisons to the states.