The federal government says it spends N1 million annually to cater for each of the inmates at the correctional facilities in the country.
Sola Fasure, the media adviser to the minister of interior, Rauf Aregbesola, made this known in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. According to the statement, the minister said this while inaugurating a 20-bed COVID-19 Crisis Intervention Fund Hospital and Equipment at the maximum security custodial centre, Port Harcourt.
The minister said that the project would be an enduring legacy and a testimony of the utmost importance the federal government had so far taken corrections, the welfare of inmates as well as the staff.
Mr Aregbesola added that President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration had, to a large extent, addressed the problem of inmates contracting diseases in custodial centres.
The minister also decried the enormous challenges of running correctional services with huge demands for infrastructure, equipment and maintaining the welfare of inmates. He, however, assured that the Federal Government had provided long-term solution to the challenges.
