A new prison facility built by the Imo State Government along Port Harcourt Road, Owerri, to accommodate no fewer than three thousand inmates, will soon be ready for use.
The new facility, will replace the old one with a carrying capacity of about five hundred, built in Owerri, by the colonial masters in 1904. Speaking, when he played host to the Controller General of Prisons, Mr. Jaafaru Ahmed at the Government House Owerri, Governor Rochas Okorocha described the new facility as one of the best in the country.
He also said that the new facility was his contribution towards alleviating the current plight of inmates, who he said, have suffered the problem of serious congestion in the past, saying that President Muhammadu Buhari will soon commission the project.
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