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No fewer than 3,298 inmates across the custodial centres in Nigeria are on death row, the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), has revealed.
Its Public Relations Officer, Mr Abubakar Umar, who disclosed this to Newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja, however said that the term ‘condemned criminal’ had been abrogated.
With the emergence of the NCoS Act 2019 which made the prisons correctional centres, the term ‘condemned criminal’ was abrogated as it is stigmatising, he explained.
He said that the service preferred to use a more friendly term of ‘Inmates on Death Row (IDR)’.
He pointed out that death sentences were not always carried out immediately they were imposed…
