The Minister of Interior Affairs, Abba Moro while speaking to some senior prison officials in Abuja today announced the ban of the use of cell phones by prison officials, prisoners and visitors, including himself within the prison premises.
According to him, all the phones on all inmates should be confiscated within 30 days. He said,
"I have visited some prisons in other countries as the Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; Nobody, no matter how highly placed you are, you don’t come to prison with your phones, not even the minister of Interior as the supervising minister over the prisons. So, why are you an exception?. Henceforth, no matter who you are including myself, nobody goes into prison with telephones.
And so, as you are going from here, create a meeting platform where all the officers that work in the prisons as they walk into prisons, they submit their phones and collect them when they close.”
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