No fewer than 115 inmates in Enugu recorded credit passes in English Language and Mathematics in the last National Examination Council (NECO)-organized Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) (External).
Mr Monday Chukwuemeka, Public Relations Officer of Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), Enugu State Command, disclosed this in a statement in Enugu on Wednesday.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that NECO released the results of its 2020 SSCE on Friday (May 7).
Chukwuemeka said that inmates in Enugu had been excelling in SSCE.
According to him, in 2018, 84 inmates got credit passes in English Language and Mathematics while 136 inmates got credit passes in English Language and Mathematics in 2019.
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He said that all the inmates 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 for reforming offenders.
“With the NCoS Act of 2019; the service has created a paradigm shift in the treatment of inmates in custody.
“The paradigm shift to correction and reform has given rise to the opportunity for inmates to actualise their educational aspirations while in reformatory/rehabilitation process,’’ he said.
The spokesman said that the Controller of Enugu State Command of NCoS, Mr Joseph Emelue, had commended the inmates for the feat.
Chukwuemeka said that the controller appealed to members of the public to see the inmates as reformed upon release and avoid any form of stigmatisation. (NAN)
Earlier on in the News
The Police Command in Enugu State has rescued one Ugo Nweke from an angry mob that caught him allegedly trying to steal a commercial bus at Abakpa-Nike in the Enugu metropolis.
In a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Enugu, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Daniel Ndukwe, said the suspect had been arrested.
Ndukwe said that the police operatives recovered a yellow Toyota Hiace commercial bus which the suspect had attempted to nick.
He said that the timely intervention of police operatives saved the suspect from being lynched on April 29 at about 8:40 a.m.
“Police operatives, following a distress call received, immediately rescued and arrested one Ugo Nweke,34, of Cabinet-Amahausa, Obiagu, Enugu, from an angry mob.
“The irate mob was on the verge of setting him ablaze with a tyre for allegedly attempting to steal a bus from where it was parked at Texaco, Abakpa-Nike in Enugu metropolis.
“The suspect will be charged to court on conclusion of investigation,’’ he said.
Ndukwe said that the state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mohammed Aliyu, had commended police operatives for successfully carrying out the operation and other operations within the state.
He said: “The commissioner has charged officers and men of the command to remain resolute and committed to the quest of ridding the state of unrepentant criminals and their activities.
“He also enjoins law-abiding residents to continue to assist the police with timely and credible information needed to further curb acts of crime and criminality in the state’’. (NAN)
