{"id":17412,"date":"2017-09-20T13:43:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T12:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=17412"},"modified":"2017-09-20T13:43:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T12:43:46","slug":"group-fg-pay-n5-6b-owed-prison-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/group-fg-pay-n5-6b-owed-prison-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"Group to FG: Pay N5.6b owed prison contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Group for\u00a0Good Governance and Democracy\u00a0has called on the Federal Government to consider the plight of food suppliers to the Nigerian Prisons Service by clearing the N5.6 billion owed them.<\/p>\n<p>The group, in a statement by its\u00a0National Coordinator and National Secretary, \u00a0Shadrack Nwokolo and Jimi Sanwo respectively, said over 75,000 inmates across the nation\u2019s prisons face a hard time ahead should the huge debt receives no attention from the Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p>Government had recently announced increment in the feeding allowance of inmates from N200 to N450 daily.<\/p>\n<p>The statement read in part: \u201cThere are about 75,000 inmates scattered across the nation\u2019s prisons. A lot of prisoners would have been dying daily if not for the kind gesture of these patriotic contractors who have not relented in supplying foods to the inmates despite the huge indebtedness by NPS in the last two years. We gathered that most of the contractors borrowed monies from financial institutions with huge interest rates attached to the loans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were concerned about the welfare of inmates and that was why they were in the vanguard for the upward review of their daily feeding allowance from N200 per day to N450 per day which is still grossly inadequate considering the cost of food items in the country.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe therefore call and appeal to our listening President, Muhammadu Buhari; the Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Danbazau and the prison authorities for a quick intervention over the lingering issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt saddens our heart that most of these patriotic contractors are struggling to survive while some are facing litigations from banks and microfinance outfits where they obtained loans. Some, we gathered, have lost their lives because of this huge indebtedness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo Caption:\u00a0Minister of the Interior, Abdulrahman Bello\u00a0Dambazau\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Group for\u00a0Good Governance and Democracy\u00a0has called on the Federal Government to consider the plight of food suppliers to the Nigerian Prisons Service by clearing the N5.6 billion owed them. 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