 The Nigerian army has blamed congestion, absence of CCTV cameras and other essential facilities as largely responsible for the Kujet jailbreak on July 5, 2022. This revelation came at a probe instituted by the House of Representatives Joint Committees on Reformatory Institutions Justice, Police Affairs Interior and Human Rights in Abuja on Wednesday. The committee is investigating the whereabouts of inmates who escaped from Kujet Correction Center and the issues of congestion experienced in mostly all the correctional services across the country. Major Peter Ogumbuina, the Assistant Director of Commercial Law, Directorate of Legal Services who made this a session, says the army is still investigating his men who were on duty during the day of the incident. But he quickly stated that the incident took place during the rotation of troops and that the Nigerian army was not the only force on ground on that fateful day. We also observed issues of low fencing and the CCTV camera absence within the general area. These are some of the things that we observe and we are unable to, these things we are unable to be put in place before the incident and I want to believe that these things would have assisted the guys to know what is happening, possibly to see how these things can be assisted. However, on our own paths, the troops tried their best by returning fire to the Boko Haram terrorists on the arrival. It was very unfortunate that the troops deployed vis-à-vis the butop of the general area were not sufficient to actually contain terrorists that came from different dimensions and became a challenge because we are deploying so many IS operations and we could not deploy more to assist the correctional center. However, I want to believe that the problem is to see how we can improve on the security challenge that has been comforting the correctional center. On ways to improve conditions of the 260 correctional centers across the country and to forestall future attacks, stakeholders took time to make useful suggestions that will aid the joint committees in their final recommendation to the House. The Federal Ministry of Justice greatly supported the efforts to decentralize the correctional service to allow states to establish and manage their own correctional centers. This was achieved through the alteration of the constitution and moved the correctional service prisons from exclusive lists to concurrent lists. This is expected to fast track the conjunction of the correctional centers nationwide when properly implemented. The Ministry appreciates the effort of the National Assembly, this committee and this committee with regards to the enactment of the fifth alteration with respect to decentralizing the correctional service bearing in mind that about 80 percent of inmates are offenders of state laws. We have just last year over 14,000 that have been prosecuted through non-constitutional measures but without funding it can't help us. My final comment is this, there are three major categories of people who will find in custody and it's important that we remember each time we think about these issues. One, those who are innocent, they have no business being there. We must do everything to make them go out. Secondly, the minor offenders, those minor offenders we need to find very practical ways including non-constitutional to deal with them. Thirdly, those who are had in criminals and each of these categories, even if it's one day, one hour you spend in custody, you will have problem because of socialization into criminal life and we know it is not only correctional service that has detention facilities. We have 19 institutions in this country that keep people and yet we do not have nobody, no agency, no individual, no the total number of persons who are in custody in Nigeria at a particular time except the statistics you have in Nigerian Correctional Studies. We can't plan that way. We can move forward that way. But I believe there's a lot that we can do. The Chairman of the Joint Committee, Honour Bolchinedu Ogwa, Chairman of the Joint Committees emphasized the importance of correctional service describing it as a Niger security stating that the committee will do everything to ensure that it meets global best standards with the contribution of stakeholders. Any sign to show that the ministry remain on duty from our own constitutional mandate on our oversight when we get to that place because we saw where the ministry people stationed their vehicle, where the police stationed their vehicle and several defense and there is no any act of ascending of bullets or anything. They just went straight and break the Kujia prison and those he made escape. We know what the ministry can do. But you have told us now that maybe during the time of first gender people on duty, what did they do to secure that correctional service? We want to know what did they do to secure that correctional service? We have so many intelligents in this country. Are you telling us there is no SSS intelligence report? Are you telling us there is no from National Security Advisor report? If there is, why is it that measures are not taken before the occurrence?