The Senate Committee on Interior, on Wednesday, increased the daily feeding allowance of the Nigerian Correctional Service from the current four hundred and fifty naira per person to a minimum of One thousand naira per day.
Officials of the NCS were in the Senate on Wednesday to defend the 2022 budget of the agency.
They proposed an increment of the daily feeding allowance to seven hundred and fifty naira, but the panel which described the amount as grossly inadequate, increased it to One thousand naira in line with the current economic reality.
A member of the committee, Senator Betty Apiafi, moved the motion for the increment and was collectively supported by all members of the panel.
She argued that the amount was grossly inadequate to feed the inmates.
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