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Ex-convicts responsible for S/East Crimes – SESN

..Urges Govt to prepare places to make them productive when they leave prison

 

PHIL OKOSE, Onitsha

 

The South East Security Network (SESN), disclosed Sunday that ex-convicts are responsible for all manners of crimes and criminality being experienced in Southeast geo political zone.

 

The group in a statement after their 2025  New Year meeting held in Awka to analyse the deplorable insecurity situation in the zone said  ex-convicts contributed significantly to kidnapping, car snatching and killings in the zone.

 

In the statement signed by their zonal leader, Col. Jude Obi (rtd,) the group said their investigation showed that most of the major criminal activities in areas like Onitsha, Ogbaru, Owerri and  municipalities,Ukwu oji,Awo Idemili, Umunze, Ogbunka, Ogbe-Ukwu, Osumughu, Iheteowerri ,Ogberuru,Obibi Ochasi Ukwuru, among others, had ex-convicts as arrowheads.

 

This,  they said, called to question the  Criminal Justice System in the country and the process of reformation of inmates in our Correctional Centres.

 

“Why should ex-convicts be hardened after serving out their jail terms? Even those still serving their jail terms commit crimes right from Correctional Centres. Why should it be so?  What are the process of correcting them? There is something fundamentally wrong with our Correctional measures if after their terms they go back hardened and join criminal gangs.” said the Network.

 

They called for comprehensive overhauling of the Correctional Centres to cater for the total wellbeing of the inmates,  even after they might have completed their jail terms.

 

“Our Governments should evolve a process that will take care of these ex-convicts after coming out from Correctional Centres. Government can either provide them with jobs or pay them monthly stipends to fully help  integrate them into the larger society” said the group.

 

The Network attributed the high crime rate in the zone and even beyond to jailbreak in Owerri, Imo State, Onitsha, Edo State and other parts of the country sometime ago, where over 4000 inmates broke loose and poured into the society, now terrorizing the people.

 

The group said some of these inmates were hardened and condemned criminals who came out and became more aggressive.

 

They suggested that before inmates are set free into society,  they should be attached to places, preferably companies where they can be productive and earn a living so that they would not be tempted to go back to their criminal activities again.

 

For a better society

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