Six inmates serving various jail terms at Umuahia Custodial Centre of the Nigeria Correctional Service, NCoS, have graduated from the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN. Five of them earned Second Class Upper Division honours.
Sarafina Nwokonnta, the Chief Operations Officer of Vision Africa Radio Umuahia disclosed this when the President of Vision Africa, Bishop Sunday Onuoha, hosted members of the Abia State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
She emphasized that providing education to the inmates would help reform them and give them a strong foundation for reintegration into society after they served their sentences.
“Vision Africa funded some inmates to write the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) O-level papers within the correctional centre. Additionally, inmates sponsored by the organization graduated with commendable results from the university.
“We have six graduates today, and out of the six, five came out with Second Class Upper Division, and they are happy about it,” Nwokonnta said.
Earlier, Bishop Sunday Onuoha, the Methodist Bishop and President of Vision Africa expressed concern over the alarming trend of stampede-related deaths caused by hunger and injustice in the country.
“There is an urgent need to address the suffering of impoverished citizens, failure to tackle the hunger and unemployment crises could lead to extreme reactions from citizens,” Onuoha stressed.
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