Nigeria: Decentralise Prisons, Don't Privatise Them

10 December 2012

A NOVEL controversy has joined the queue in the public arena: the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) intends to invite the private sector to manage Nigerian prisons.

Abba Moro, the Hon Minister for the Interior, disclosed this while receiving a delegation of the African National Congress (ANC) ofSouth Africa in his office.

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