The Nigeria Correctional Service,said it has enroled about 895 inmates for the National Examination Council of Nigeria (NECO) external examinations at its Enugu State command in one decade.
This figure of was confirmed by the
Enugu special study center of the National Open University of Nigeria.
Desk Officer of the University Kelvin
Iloafonsi, said since July 11, 2011, when the study centre was permitted to
take up , it uplifted the educational status
of the inmates from primary to the
university stage through rigorous contribution of the desk officers who taught
the inmates how to attempt examination questions which led to their successes
with flying colors.
Mr Iloafonsi lamented when
the University started in the year 2011, they were going round the correctional
centers to convinced authorities and inmates to see education as a penitentiary alternative and
productive.
He
said it has been observed that prison inmates in Enugu have been showing
interests to pursue their Education when they are free, saying the special
study centre has championed reformatory services of the Nigeria Correctional
Service in the state in the past ten years.
Iloafonsi said that the
study centre got Educational backup from upright humanitarian and inmates’ good
organizations, whose partnership has led to free-of-charge schooling at various
levels and most inmates hoped to be
involved .
The Nigeria Correctional Service has devoted
resources to see e that inmates expand and improve their future academic-wise
being in custody to become self dependant after serving in the center as
prisoners.
Recent figures have shown that the
centre got excellent results of NECO
examinations between 2016 and 2021, increasing National Open university of
Nigeria NOUN’s successful geometric,
also increasing annually with initial 27 students in 2012 to 75 registered
students in 2014.
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