Prison officials sell cell spaces for N300,000 to rich inmates – Agba Jalingo alleges

Prison officials sell cell spaces for N300,000 to rich inmates – Agba Jalingo alleges

Civil rights activist, Mr. Agba Jalingo, has alleged that some officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service sell cell spaces to wealthy inmates for as much as N300,000. Jalingo, who made the allegation during a two-day Investigative and Accountability Journalism Masterclass organised by the Agba Jalingo Foundation in Calabar, said the act was part of the widespread corruption plaguing the nation’s correctional centres. “I am saying emphaticall…