In order to acquire funding for the participation of prisoners in farming operations, the interior minister, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has sought cooperation with the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending.
The minister suggested that NIRSAL work 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.
The statement quoted Tunji-Ojo as saying “NIRSAL can do a lot of good to the Nigeria Correctional Service and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps. With the rising budgetary cost in the feeding of inmates, NIRSAL can partner with the interior ministry to secure funds for the engagement of inmates for farming activities to produce their food.”
In his remarks, NIRSAL MD explained that the organization “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.”
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Source: Punch