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No fewer than 115 inmates of Enugu custodial centre made credit passes in English and Mathematics in the recent National Examination Council (NECO) General Certificate Examination (External Examination).
NECO officially released the results of NECO-GCE 2020 on Friday, May 7.
Mr Monday Chukwuemeka, Public Relations Officer of Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), Enugu State Command, disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Enugu on Wednesday.
Chukwuemeka recalled that the inmates had been excelling before now in NECO-GCE exams.
According to him, in 2018; 84 inmates got credits in English and Mathematics and in 2019; 136 inmates got credits in English and Mathematics. All were tutored within the custodial centre.
“The Nigerian Correctional Service under the visionary leadership of Mr Haliru Nababa focuses on educational development as a viable tool of reforming offenders.
“With the NCoS ACT 2019; the Service has created a paradigm shift in the treatment of inmates in custody.
“The paradigm shift to correctional and reformatory has given rise to the opportunity for inmates to actualise their educational aspirations while in the reformatory/rehabilitation process,’’ he said.
The NCoS spokesman said that the Controller of Corrections in Enugu State Command, Mr Joseph Emelue, had commended the inmates for the feat they had accomplished.
Chukwuemeka said that the controller, however, appealed to members of the public “to see these ones as reformed upon release and to avoid any form of stigmatisation’’.
