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75 Ogun Prisoners Bag Diploma In Theology, Become Pastors

No fewer than 75 inmates of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Ibara Maximum Security Custodial Centre, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, have been certified Pastors after bagging Diploma certificates in Theology.

The inmates were graduated after passing through a six-month training geared towards reforming and rehabilitating them. at the seminary domiciled within the facility,

The programme, which was organized by the Right Thinkers Initiative, had the combined efforts of other Ministers of God who repeatedly visited the yard to teach the graduating students.

At the graduation ceremony held within the premises of the Center, the National Director of the project, Dr Olamide Emmanuel, said the event was an effort to reform and rehabilitate criminated minds.

“We combined efforts with some men of God to work at the custodial centre here. We have about 75 of them who have distinguished themselves to serve God. Some of them have been released and they have started work outside. The programme is in three stages and it’s already a year today.

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“We discovered that many leave this place destitutely with nothing to fall back on. They are castigated outside, they are stigmatised. But, through the help of Ministers of God, we built their psyche so that they will know this is not the end of life, better things are there for them outside,” he said.

Dr Emmanuel disclosed that the third stage of the programme would produce graduates with Bachelor’s degree in Theology, saying, “We have those who are qualified for that already.”

The Deputy Controller of Corrections, Oshin Bamidele, who is in charge of the Ibara Maximum Security Custodial Centre, said that the duty of correctional officers is to reform, rehabilitate and reintegrate.

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