A total of 200 inmates of Medium Security Custodial Centre (MSCC), Enugu are currently undertaking various first degree and higher degree studies in the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).<\/p>\n
The Deputy Controller of Corrections (DCC) in-charge of Enugu Custodial Centre, Dr Sunday Igwe, disclosed this to newsmen in Enugu on Monday.<\/p>\n
Igwe said that bulk of the over 200 students in the MSCC Centre in Enugu are pursuing their first degrees; while few others were doing their Masters and Doctorate degrees.<\/p>\n
He also revealed that recently, over 102 inmates sat for the just-concluded National Examination Council (NECO) examination in anticipation to pursue their degree courses.<\/p>\n
According to him, the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) under the current Controller-General Sylvester Nwakuche have continued to make monumental impact on inmates reformation and upgrade through education.<\/p>\n
Igwe said that the current leadership of the NCoS had prioritised humane and impact-driven reformation especially education upgrade and certification of inmates.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce they (inmates) are here; we don\u2019t just keep them idling away; we engage them in so many things that would make their stay worthwhile.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn most instances; most of them come here without knowing how to write their names.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we engage them here through the process of education; some of them leave here with their degree certificates on various courses.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are in partnership with NECO and NOUN to achieve this result-oriented and impact-driven educational reformation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the Open University (NOUN); over 200 of them in this Medium Security Custodial Centre (MSCC), Enugu, are undertaking various degree-awarding courses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said that it was heartwarming that in a facility holding over 3,000 inmates, that over 200 of them are actively engaged in pursuing university education and some of them started their pursuit from the scratch.<\/p>\n
Igwe said that apart from education; the inmates are engaged in learning crafts and vocations through the tailoring, carpentry and wielding workshops in the centre.<\/p>\n
He thanked the Assistant Controller-General of NCoS in-charge of Zone M, Enugu, ACG Prisca Oku, and the Controller of Corrections in Enugu State, Mr Valins Obizue, for their support and guidance.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs government cannot do it all alone, we are calling on public-spirited individuals, groups and organisations to partner with the NCoS to sustain all the engagements and programmes of reformation in this centre,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A total of 200 inmates of Medium Security Custodial Centre (MSCC), Enugu are currently undertaking various first degree and higher degree studies in the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). The Deputy Controller of Corrections (DCC) in-charge of Enugu Custodial Centre, Dr Sunday Igwe, disclosed this to newsmen in Enugu on Monday. Igwe said that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4460,1219,3405],"class_list":["post-9817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-anticipation","tag-examination","tag-pursue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9818,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817\/revisions\/9818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}