About 53,460 inmates are awaiting trial nationwide, the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) has said
The Comptroller General of the NCoS, Sylvester Nwakuche, stated this on Friday in Abuja while meeting with the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu.
Leading top officials of the paramilitary agency to the INEC headquarters, Nwakuche made a case for inmates, asking the electoral body to extend some rights to them, particularly the right to vote.
According to the NCoS boss, there are 81,000 prison inmates nationwide.
Responding, the INEC chairman said it would allow prison inmates to vote during elections.
He affirmed the judgment of the Appeal Court, granting inmates the right to register and vote in any elections.
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