Nigerians have been comparing the Nigerian Correctional Service Hotel with the nation’s infamous correctional facilities.
The 105-room hotel said to be an investment of the Correctional Service Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society, was inaugurated by the immediate past Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, in 2021.
However, the sparkling pictures of the “investment” posted on the correctional service’s Facebook page, left many Nigerians wondering as to the irony of such building.
The Nigerian Correctional Service Hotel was opened in 2021
Presently, many correctional facilities are reported to have fallen short of the best standard.
Inmates are said to be held in dilapidated, overcrowded cells, leading to hazardous living conditions.
The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, recently stated that since the name of the Nigerian Prison Service was changed to Nigerian Correctional Service, there have been more jailbreaks in the country.
Unsatisfied with the images of the hotel, many users commented their frustration.
Sadeeq Shehu decried the modern facility in contrast to what he called prisons “built of mud”
He wrote, “While Nigerian Correctional Service (alias prisons) has a modern hotel, it has prisons built of mud. All Nigerian security agencies should be divested from all business ventures so that they can concentrate on the job.”
