Prisons: NHRC begins 2014 nationwide prisons audit in Sokoto

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(Nigeria) The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC on Monday in Sokoto State started the 2014 nationwide audit of prisons and other detention facilities.
Prof. Bem Angwe, the Executive Secretary of the Commission, started the exercise at the Sokoto prison.
"As an institution saddled with the responsibility of promoting, protecting and enforcing human rights, it is strongly believed that the conditions in our places of detention must be in conformity with the minimum international standards.
``Our intervention is therefore aimed at ensuring that the detention places are designed and managed in a way that the conditions therein are compatible with set human right standards," he said at the launch of the exercise.
According to Angwe, the commission has since 1999, carried out periodic audits of prisons and other detention facilities across the country and made recommendations.
These recommendations, he said, had led to far-reaching changes in the penal justice administration.
The Sokoto State Controller of Prison, Hajiya Hauwa Shettima, commended the commission for embarking on the exercise.
The exercise was witnessed by the Chairmen, Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Judiciary, Sen. Umaru Dahiru and Mrs Beni Lar, respectively.
The state Chief Judge, Justoce Aisha Dahiru, also attended the event.

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