In order to acquire funding for the participation of prisoners in farming operations, the interior minister, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has sought a partnership with the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending.
The Punch reported that the minister suggested that NIRSAL works with the interior ministry to ensure that detainees grow their own food in light of the increased budgetary expense of feeding prisoners.
Tunji-Ojo made a comment when the management of NIRSAL, led by its Managing Director, Abbas Masanawa, visited him in Abuja on Thursday, according to a statement from the ministry’s Director of Press, Ajibola Afonja.
According to Tunji-Ojo, who was quoted in the release, “NIRSAL can do a lot of good for the Nigeria Correctional Service and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.
“NIRSAL can work with the interior ministry to acquire funding for inmates to be hired for farming activities to generate their food in light of the increased financial costs associated with feeding prisoners.
The corporation, according to the NIRSAL MD, “is a non-bank financial institution wholly owned by the Central Bank of Nigeria to redefine dimension, measure, reprice, and share agribusiness-related credit risk in Nigeria.”
