The Federal Government has commended the efforts of an Undercover Investigative Journalist, Fisayo Soyombo for doing a good a job on investigation conducted at the Ikoyi Prison in Lagos.
The commendation came from the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola through his official Twitter. He also commended the Publisher of The Cable Newspaper, Simon Kolawole.
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Ogbeni Aregbesola said, “While we await the outcome of the investigation to determine if what was reported was right or wrong, the intention of the publisher, undercover reporter and everyone involved in the reportage is worth celebrating”.
Aregbesola further condemned the dehumanisation of inmates, saying maltreating them hinders their reformation as productive members of society.
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“You cannot permit dehumanisation of confined people and expect them to be anything less than an animal when they come out. The only way you can get a sane human being out of confinement is to… (educate), and that is what we use,” he said.
It should be recalled that Fisayo, in his undercover report, spent two weeks in detention — five days in a police cell and eight as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison — to track corruption in Nigeria’s criminal justice system, beginning from the moment of arrest by the police to the point of release by the prison.
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