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Food Scarcity Looms in Nigerian Prisons, See Shocking Reason
Posted by George on Mon 16th Nov, 2015 - tori.ngThere are indications that inmates in Nigerian prisons may be thrown into hunger following threats by food contractors to halt delivery of food items owing to government's debt to them.
Prisons inmates across the country may be thrown into hunger from December if urgent steps are not taken to settle the outstanding bills of food contractors, according to the Punch.
The contractors, under the aegis of Nigeria Prison Service Ration and Gas Contractors, have already made their intention to stop supplying food and gas to prisons from December known in a letter addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari.
A copy of the letter, dated November 13 and sighted by a correspondent on Sunday, was jointly signed by the association’s President, Chief S. K. Sanni; National Secretary, Mr. Eugene Agro; and the National Vice President (North West), Alhaji Ibrahim A. Asarakawa.
The Minister of Interior and the Comptroller-General of Prisons, among other top government officials, were copied. The contractors informed Buhari that the Federal Government’s indebtedness to them currently stands at N6 billion.
They said with the outstanding bill, they no longer have the financial capacity to source for food and gas with which they could supply the prisons and have urged the Federal Government to swiftly move to arrest the impending crisis.
The contractors, under the aegis of Nigeria Prison Service Ration and Gas Contractors, have already made their intention to stop supplying food and gas to prisons from December known in a letter addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari.
A copy of the letter, dated November 13 and sighted by a correspondent on Sunday, was jointly signed by the association’s President, Chief S. K. Sanni; National Secretary, Mr. Eugene Agro; and the National Vice President (North West), Alhaji Ibrahim A. Asarakawa.
The Minister of Interior and the Comptroller-General of Prisons, among other top government officials, were copied. The contractors informed Buhari that the Federal Government’s indebtedness to them currently stands at N6 billion.
They said with the outstanding bill, they no longer have the financial capacity to source for food and gas with which they could supply the prisons and have urged the Federal Government to swiftly move to arrest the impending crisis.
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