The Nigerian Prison Service (NPS) changes name

 Ita Enang, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate),  has disclosed to State House correspondent in Abuja on Wednesday that President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Nigerian Correctional Service Bill into law.

This new law invariably repeals the Nigerian Prisons Service Act. Therefore, The Nigerian Prison Service will now be  called Nigerian Correctional Service.

What is really in changing the name of an institution?

The history of The Nigerian Prison Service (NPS) could be traced as far back as when the country was colonized. But the first prison was established in 1872 along the Broad Street Lagos with an initial inmate capacity of 300. The colonial prison at this stage was not designed to reform anyone.

Rtd Dr I. W. Orakwe (former Controller of Prisons) wrote extensively over this, saying that, "There was no systematic penal policy from which direction could be sought for penal administration. Instead prisoners were in the main used for public works and other jobs for the colonial administration. For this reason there was no need for the recruitment of trained officers of the prisons. Hence colonial prisons had no trained and developed staff of their own and instead the police also performed prison duties. As time went on ex-servicemen were recruited to do the job".

The modern day prison service is not correctional in nature and operations. Perhaps it is what necessitate the change in name.

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