Tinubu approves recruitment of 50 doctors, 100 nurses for prison inmates

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, through the Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has approved the employment of 50 doctors and 100 nurses to cater for the medical needs of inmates in correctional centres across the country.

In a statement signed Thursday in Abuja, by special assistant to the minister on Media, Alao Babatunde, said the president also gave approval for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to post medical doctors to correctional centres for the service year, in realisation of the need to protect the rights of the weakest in society.

The minister, according to the statement, also announced the approval of the extension of service beyond retirement age for existing medical personnel under the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) to cover for shortfalls in the short term.

“Before his appointment as minister, a state like Rivers state lacked adequate number of medical personnel to cater to inmates, hence the need for the employment intervention,” the statement reads.