Bobrisky: Minister vows to reform correctional service

The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo

The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has vowed to reform the Nigerian Correctional Service.

This comes in the wake of allegations against the service in a viral audio shared by Martins Otse, a.k.a. VeryDarkMan, in which Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, claimed that after his sentencing, his godfather, in collaboration with the Controller General of the Nigerian Correctional Service, arranged for him to serve his six-month sentence in a private apartment.

A day later, the minister ordered a probe into the allegation, and some officers of the correctional service were suspended.

Speaking during the inauguration of the committee set up to investigate the allegations on Monday, the minister urged its members to adopt a holistic approach to uncover other issues within the service.

He said, “We want to reform the correctional service. Your core responsibility is to investigate specific allegations of corruption, torture, and mistreatment of inmates by correctional officers, especially the immediate one concerning Bobrisky, which I expect to be completed in two weeks.

“There is a need for a holistic approach to unravel the issues being investigated, through empirical and fact-finding processes.

“We will rely on you to come up with a way forward, as well as facts that will be made public to Nigerians. I want to say this very clearly: nobody will be shielded. Nobody, no matter how highly placed, will be shielded.”

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