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Bayelsa and Ekiti states have the lowest numbers of prisoners, with 444 and 585 as at last year. Even then the two states also failed to buck the trend as their cells can accommodate only 200 and 400 prisoners respectively.


NBS data shows that 59,940 Christians were incarcerated in the two year period, in contrast with 71,402 muslims. The number of traditionalists, atheists and others was
11,506.


On 6 October, President Muhammadu Buhari expressed concern over the state of the nation’s prisons, noting that it is a national scandal that many prisons are overcrowded by 90 per cent.


"We need a new approach to prison congestion. It is a national scandal that many prisons are overcrowded by 90 per cent, " he said.