The Federal Government says it spends N1 million annually to cater for each of the inmates at the correctional facilities in the country.
Sola Fasure, the Media Adviser to the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, made this known in a statement on Saturday in Abuja.
Aregbesola added that President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration had, to a large extent, addressed the problem of inmates contracting diseases in custodial centres.
The minister also decried the enormous challenges of running correctional services with huge demands for infrastructure, equipment and maintaining the welfare of inmates.
He, however, assured that the Federal Government had provided a long-term solution to the challenges.
Meanwhile, Nigerians had taken to social media to express dismay on the amount of 1 Million Naira feed cost for each inmate.
A number of people questioned the amount, noting that most of the fund would have been embezzled owing to the poor feeding condition of the inmates.
