The Senator who is as of now being arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for asserted N3.1 billion extortion while he was Governor of Benue State, said this while adding to a movement on jail decongestion by Uche Ekwunife, representative speaking to Anambra focal.
Reviewing his involvement with jail, Suswam expressed it will be decent for Nigerian pioneers to invest some energy there to comprehend the difficulties in the restorative offices.
He said;
"I need to help this movement dependent on my experience. At the point when I left priosn, I prescribed that for individuals to be appropriate pioneers right now, least each and everybody of us must go through a couple of days in jail," he said.
Lawan added and facetiously stated: "any individual who filled in as a senator?"
"Truly and delegate senator most likely," he included, before Suswan proceeded.
"I went there, they took me there in the night. The next day toward the beginning of the day, the whole jail realized I was there.
"I plunked down there from morning till night on the grounds that there were a great deal of youngsters there.
"Also, it may intrigue you to realize that what they go through years in jail for… are aura you can without much of a stretch reject. There was a youngster who has gone through 10 years there for only an issue of N10,000.
"Different people were there on exceptionally minor offenses that the police can stand to address them and send them home.
"I made it a state of obligation that when I left that place, for the following one month, I took near 20 youngsters out of that place. It didn't take anything, simply pay the cash and send them back to court."
The movement for decongestion of penitentiaries was received by the senate who guided applicable boards of trustees to guarantee a legitimate oversight of remedial focuses in Nigeria.
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