Nigeria: Prison Development Party (PDP)

5 December 2012
opinion

BELIEVE me; but I have spent the past week looking for a rebuttal of the story. Last Wednesday, November 28th, DAILY SUN carried the report on its page 8; the Nigerian government had begun discussions on the privatisation of Nigerian prisons. Interior Minister, Patrick Abba Moro, disclosed the "privatisation gone berserk" plan "to leave prisons management into the private hands (SIC)". There is nothing unusual about discussions within governments.

It is also clear that the PDP, since 1999, has turned privatisation into something close to a religious conviction; this despite its'social democratic' manifesto or Nigeria's Constitution's Chapter II, which prohibits concentration of wealth and the means of production in the hands of a few.

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