*directs Correctional Service officers to shoot to kill
By;BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola on Monday vowed that any further attack on Correctional facility in the country will be resisted by officers of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS).
Ogbeni Aregbesola stated this in Ibadan while addressing Senior officers at the Agodi Custodial Centre of the NCoS during his official inspection tour of the Agodi Correctional facility .
According to the Minister, Correctional (Prison) facility should be seen as a red zone, saying ” anyone who attempt to attack it is dead and should not be alive to tell the story”.
Ogbeni Aregbesola then directed officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) to shot dead anyone attempting to attack prison facility henceforth, adding that the ” most important thing is the security impregnability of this facility”.
” This is a red zone, dangerous zone. Whoever attempt to breach the facility is already dead. He must not live to tell the story. any effort to breach our facility is not acceptable. Don’t shot to injure but shot to kill for any reason.This is a total embodiment of the state to guarantee the security of the people”, he said.
The Minister emphasized that the NCoS officers must make it impossible for any attack to penetrate the facility and that such an attempt must remain an attempt, saying, the attacks on the custodial centers are not acceptable and must stop,
Stressing that any attempt must henceforth be resisted with brutal force, the Minister assured the NCoS officers that government will do its best in ensuring that their welfare is a top priority as a way of ensuring effective service delivery”
” We will do our best on your welfare to ensure effective service. I must commend your work for not recording any case of Covid-19 in your facility.You must be effective in preventing the penetration of this facility.
” You must have the capacity to repel viciously any attempt to attack or invade this facility and an attempt must remain an attempt.”
The Minister later ordered the demolition of shops and business centres within and around the Agodi prison facility as means of ensuring adequate security at the centre
