42,000 NIGERIANS IN PRISON, 34,000 AWAITING TRIAL.

Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro met recently with some media organizations during which he explained his ministry’s efforts to give the prisons a turn-around. The former academic who also spoke on politics in his home-state and what he described as vicious campaigns against him, revealed that 34,000 of the 42,000 inmates in Nigerian prisons, are awaiting trial and a good percentage of them have been incarcerated for at least five years.