67 of the center’s 573 detainees are condemned, according to Mr. Adeyinka Adebayo, the correctional center’s controller in Calabar’s Afokang neighborhood of Cross River State.
Adebayo revealed this over the weekend when he thanked Rev. Eyoanwan Otu, the wife of Governor Bassey Otu, for constructing a sizable kitchen for the prisoners. Adebayo also thanked the governor and his wife for their visit during the Eid al-Kabir celebration last week.
“Let me say that 99% of the prisoners we have here are from Cross River State,” he remarked. The inmates have a ton of potential based on what we observe at the facilities. Our prayer is for the government to do more as a way of extending the dividends of democracy to us here.”