Monday, February 04, 2013

Alpha canvasses education, training as weapons against crime

Monday, February 04, 2013

Alpha canvasses education, training as weapons against crime



They also called on the nation’s leaders to make the nation’s prisons reformatory by ensuring that inmates are given financial empowerment through exposure to education and vocational training while serving their jail terms.

They spoke during a weeklong “train the trainer” programme for  people from various Christian denominations interested in giving succour to prisoners in Lagos.

To contribute to the empowerment of prisoners and ex-convicts, they added that the organisation had also completed a N60m school cum vocational training centre for them.

The group, through its ‘Prison Global Alpha Training’, trains people who would go into prison ministries to transform the lives of prisoners.

According to Ogunbiyi, it is important to empower the prisoners to reduce the rate of crime in the country.

She said, “The training is to empower people who want to go into prison to transform people. It is training for those who have passion for prison ministry. It is to enable them to transform inmates, so that they become repentant and responsible citizens.

“We are taking the school into the prison to run it for inmates so that they can become transformed and have the ability to pick up with faith. This will reduce the rate of crime and their potential to go back to crime. Our prisons are supposed to be reformation centres but they are not. This is just a way to ensure that people are developed spiritually and have human conscience.”

Also, Omololu added that the group had partnered with national and international organisations and stakeholders to build an action plan that would ensure changes in the life of the prisoners.

He said, “We partner with different groups both nationally and internationally. There is an action plan for us to work with and we are building a team that will see how the programme is going to run successfully.
“We are equipping them with additional provision and care for ex-prisoners. We hope that apart from meeting their spiritual challenges, we will care for their physical needs so that they won’t commit offences that would return them to prison.”

Earlier in his speech, the Comptroller-General of Prisons, Mr. Zakari Ibrahim, commended the group, adding that achievements of the programme would contribute to national development.
He added, “Such achievement of creating school ministry for prisoners will lead to national security. This understanding informs the reason for including prisoners’ reformation agenda into the chaplaincy services.”




CULLED FROM: PUNCH NEWSPAPERS

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Sodiq Oyeleke is a Media, Human Resources, Project Management and Public Relations Practitioner

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