Aregbesola’s jail decongestion move deserves swift action

IT is an open secret that Nigeria’s notoriously overcrowded prisons — rechristened as correctional centres in 2019 — need a comprehensive decongestion strategy. In a fresh acknowledgement of this open sore, the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has just enunciated a programme that aims to facilitate the quick release of 30 per cent of the