The Federal Ministry of Interior on Thursday, August 13, said it would soon install surveillance cameras in prisons to check cases of jailbreaks in the country.
Ministry to install cameras in prisons
He said the cameras would help in monitoring unusual movement of prisoners or those who might want to cause social discontent in the prisons.
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The ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Alhaji Abubakar Magaji, disclosed this while fielding questions from State House correspondents after briefing President Muhammadu Buhari on the activities of the ministry.
He, however, lamented that the prison service was experiencing acute shortage of personnel and stressed the need for the employment of more staff.
Magaji disclosed that President Buhari was also briefed on the challenges being faced by the ministry in manning the over 1,900 illegal routes across the nation’s borders.
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He said the President had pledged to look into the various problems facing the ministry.
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