By Ebere Agozie
The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami SAN, says digitalisation such as installation of Virtual Automated Case Management System will fast track prison decongestion in Nigeria.
Malami said this on Tuesday, in Abuja while briefing newsmen on the upcoming National Workshop on `effective implementation of provisions of the correctional service act, 2019.
“The system will integrate with the existing Prisons Information Management System (PIMS) with the ultimate aim of effecting a holistic improvement of the efficiency of the entire Justice Sector’’.
He said that on assumption of office President Muhammadu Buhari was alarmed over the deplorable state of prisons nationwide.
He said that Buhari noted that the state of the prisons was a national disaster and that many of the prisons are about 90 per cent over crowded and therefore stressed the need to put…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
