Nigeria's Prison population of 65,000 inmates are currently under the threat of starvation following the non-payment of ration and gas suppliers since 2015.
It was gathered that the Federal Government had since 2015 failed to remit payment of over N6 billion to the contractors.
One of the suppliers, Hajia Maimunat Usman, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to cause the Ministry of Finance to release the money to the appropriate bodies for disbursement to the suppliers.
“The contractors are still being owed 2015 and 2016 outstanding payments for the supply of food to the prisons. Several efforts to get the Ministry of Finance to remit the outstanding payments have been futile,” she said.
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