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By Safiyat Muhammed
“This bakery is greater than flour and ovens. It’s hope baked into bread — a second probability at life for our inmates.”
— Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, Minister of Inside (represented by Abdul Malik Jibril)
In a bid to scale back post-incarceration stigma and foster financial reintegration, the Federal Authorities of Nigeria has commissioned a reformed bakery undertaking contained in the Kaduna Open Custodial Centre, in line with the data made accessible to The Bureau Newspaper.
The initiative, executed in partnership with a personal sector agency and the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS), is a part of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, geared toward remodeling custodial centres into hubs of rehabilitation and productiveness.
A Bakery for Reform, Not Simply Bread
On the commissioning occasion, the Minister of Inside, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo—represented by Abdul Malik Jibril—emphasised that the brand new bakery would function a strong device in combating social prejudice towards ex-inmates by equipping them with employable abilities.
“The reformed bakery is designed to equip inmates with abilities that can preserve them away from crime and reintegrate them into society,” the Minister stated.
From Cells to Expertise: Empowering Inmates via Vocational Coaching
The Kaduna-based bakery is tailor-made to supply inmates nearing launch:
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Intensive vocational coaching in baking
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Entrepreneurial data
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Manufacturing administration abilities
Controller-Basic of Corrections, Sylvester Nwakuche, famous that the power is a part of a broader rehabilitation technique that features agriculture, training via NOUN, and habits modification.
“These inmates are being ready to turn out to be contributors to society, not burdens,” he remarked. “We’re constructing residents, not criminals.”
Breaking the Cycle: From Incarceration to Integration
The Federal Authorities’s technique goes past punishment. By integrating abilities acquisition into the incarceration course of, it hopes to:
The bakery undertaking can also be anticipated to generate inside income for the correctional facility and contribute to inmate feeding packages.
Public-Personal Collaboration at Work
The undertaking is the results of a collaborative effort between the Nigeria Correctional Service and a yet-to-be-named non-public firm below a public-private partnership (PPP) mannequin.
Officers say extra of such tasks are being deliberate in different correctional centres nationwide as a part of efforts to overtake the jail system below the Tinubu-led administration.
Kaduna Facility Main Reform
The Kaduna Open Custodial Centre is more and more being recognised as a mannequin of innovation and humane incarceration, having earlier launched:
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Agricultural coaching
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NOUN examine centres
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Vocational labs
“This bakery is a logo of what the Renewed Hope Agenda stands for: rehabilitation, reintegration, and nationwide rebuilding,” Dr Tunji-Ojo added.
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