The wife of Abia State Governor Mrs Nkechi Ikpeazu has called for speedy judicial dissipations by the judiciary to decongest the population of inmates in the Nigeria Correctional Service.
The Governor’s wife stated this when she visited the Nigeria Correctional Facility in Umuahia, to mark the 2019,World Sights Day organised by the Optometrists Association.
She said that the awareness being created through campaigns and testing would go a long way in resolving some of the issues associated with poor sight management adding that some of the eye diseases are preventable.
The Abia First Lady charge all health practitioners and traditional institutions to join the association in educating people on preventable measures against prevalence of eye diseases and commended the Nigeria Correctional Service for measures that are taken to improve live of the inmates.
In his speech, the state comptroller, Nigeria Correctional Service, Julius Ezeugwu, decried the rising population of inmates in geographical progression adding that the number is growing higher than the facility in Umuahia, Aba and Arochukwu can carry.
Ezeugwu appealed for government’s assistance to improve on their services and thanked the Abia Governor’s wife for choosing the centre for free eye service stressing that such gesture would go along way to improve the sight sight conditions of the inmates.
In his remarks the state chairman of the Optometrists Association of Nigeria, Dr. Okechukwu Abangwu, said that the associations programme aimed at the treatment of eye diseases as well as prevent it.
Abangwu thanked the wife of Abia Governor for partnering with them.
