President of the Nigerian Senate, Godswill Akpabio has says the country has recorded more jailbreaks since the name of the Nigerian Prison Service was changed to Nigerian Correctional Service.
The former governor of Akwa Ibom State made the disclosure on the floor of the senate on Tuesday.
Two pieces of legislation were billed for concurrence at plenary on the said day.
The bills for concurrence includes one to repeal and enact the law establishing Revenue Mobilsation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, and another to repeal the Fire Service Act and enact Federal Fire and Rescue Service.
The leader of the Senate minority, Abba Moro, claimed that since the fire department already has responsibility for the “rescue component,” there was no need to modify the name.
“I do not think there is a need for that,” Moro said.
In his response, the senate president said there is a need to examine such laws.
“This is something to be looked at. When you are convicted, you are supposed to learn a skill,” Akpabio said.
“But since we changed the name to the correctional centre, there have been more jailbreaks.”
The bill that renamed the Nigerian Prison Service as the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) was signed into law by former President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019, and more than 1,000 inmates have escaped from correctional centres across the country since the day.
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