Thirty-one
inmates of the Kuje Prison, Abuja, who sat for the 2014 NOV/DEC Senior
Secondary School Examination have been presented their certificates at
the facility by a representative of the Controller-General of Prisons,
DCP Musa Tanko.
The inmates were sponsored by a non-governmental organisation, NUGA BEST, which paid for their enrollment for the examinations.
Tanko
reiterated the commitment of the Nigerian Prisons Service to humane
confinement, reformation and rehabilitation of inmates.
He
stated that assisting inmates to have access to educational
opportunities at all levels was one notable way of keeping alive their
hope of a successful return to the larger society.
He observed
that Kuje Prison had continued to record impressive inmates’
participation in external examinations since the programme started in
2010, adding that close to 41 inmates have enrolled for various degree
programmes in the National Open University of Nigeria Special Study
Centre in the prison.
It was learnt that 38 inmates sat for the
examination, and 31 results were released, while seven were withheld.
Cumulatively, the candidates had 67 distinctions, 94 credits, 73 passes
and 41 fails.
Credit: Adelani Adepegba/Punch
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