The Minister of Interior, OLUBUNMI TUNJI-OJO, says the Federal Government is set to relocate 29 correctional centres from urban areas.

TUNJI-OJO disclosed this while speaking on a monitored television program.

He listed some of the prisons to include: Ikoyi correctional centre, Apapa, Agodi, Enugu, and Suleja.

The minister said the relocation of the correctional centres was necessitated by the audit carried out on all the 256 correctional centres in the country. 

He added that the relocation is necessary to curtail the security risk the prisons posed to the society because of their closeness to urban centers.