{"id":4558,"date":"2017-05-15T03:57:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T03:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/construction-begins-in-imo-prisons-service-headquarters\/"},"modified":"2017-05-15T03:57:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T03:57:49","slug":"construction-begins-in-imo-prisons-service-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/construction-begins-in-imo-prisons-service-headquarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction begins in Imo Prisons Service headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"attachment_184155\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nigeria-Prisons-1-1.jpg?resize=1280%2C719&#038;ssl=1\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/plugins\/ventra-lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif?ssl=1\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nigeria-Prisons-1-1.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nigeria-Prisons-1-1-640x360.jpg 640w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nigeria-Prisons-1-1-1062x598.jpg 1062w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nigeria-Prisons-1-1-320x180.jpg 320w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nigeria-Prisons-1-1-281x158.jpg 281w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nigeria-Prisons-1-1-562x316.jpg 562w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nigeria-Prisons-1-1-531x299.jpg 531w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nigeria-Prisons-1-1-487x274.jpg 487w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nigeria-Prisons-1-1-974x547.jpg 974w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nigeria-Prisons-1-1-600x337.jpg 600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" class=\"size-full wp-image-184155\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><noscript><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nigeria-Prisons-1-1.jpg?resize=1280%2C719&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" class=\"size-full wp-image-184155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nigeria-Prisons-1-1.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nigeria-Prisons-1-1-640x360.jpg 640w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nigeria-Prisons-1-1-1062x598.jpg 1062w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nigeria-Prisons-1-1-320x180.jpg 320w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nigeria-Prisons-1-1-281x158.jpg 281w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nigeria-Prisons-1-1-562x316.jpg 562w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nigeria-Prisons-1-1-531x299.jpg 531w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nigeria-Prisons-1-1-487x274.jpg 487w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nigeria-Prisons-1-1-974x547.jpg 974w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nigeria-Prisons-1-1-600x337.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nigeria Prison<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>After 31years on the drawing board and intrigues between the land owners, the Imo state government and the authorities of the Nigerian Prisons Service, construction work has commenced on a 38- hectare land for the building of multi-million naira administrative headquarters of the Nigerian Prisons situated in Umuoma, Nekede, Owerri West Local Council of Imo State.<\/p>\n<p>An interim Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between the community and officials of the Prisons on the employment indigenes and contracts to be awarded in the feeding of the inmates.<\/p>\n<p>The community, according to the Chairman of Okwu, Umuoma Nekede Welfare Union, Okechukwu Opara; the chairman of the Okwu Youths Town Union, Kamalu Gabriel and a community leader, Kingsley Uwaleke, the land, initially measuring 71 hectares, was donated by the community to the authorities of the Nigerian Prisons Service, in 1986, stressing that state government took possession of about 33 hectares, and earmarked it \u2018\u2019Rescue Lay Out\u2019\u2019, leaving 38 for the Prisons to build their administrative headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>All the traditional rites, they disclosed, have been given to the various families in the community. At present, the administrative headquarters of the service is located at Okigwe Road Round About, near Government House, Owerri.<\/p>\n<p>Already, the clearing of the site has begun, and expected to end in 30 days time.\u00a0Thereafter, fencing and groundbreaking would take place. It was gathered that the service\u2019s departments, including the administration unit, would be erected at the site. Source told The Guardian that all required basic modern amenities would be provided in the proposed edifice.Also, erected at the site is the conspicuous signpost, while armed prisons officials also guard the land, preventing intruders after frisking them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a hre=\"http:\/\/guardian.ng\/property\/construction-begins-in-imo-prisons-service-headquarters\/\"> Guardian <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria Prison After 31years on the drawing board and intrigues between the land owners, the Imo &hellip; <a title=\"Construction begins in Imo Prisons Service headquarters\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/construction-begins-in-imo-prisons-service-headquarters\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Construction begins in Imo Prisons Service headquarters<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[2890,522,1007,41],"class_list":["post-4558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities-in-new-markets","tag-construction","tag-nigeria","tag-owners","tag-property"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nigeria-Prisons-1-1.jpg?fit=1280%2C719&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2220,"url":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/nigerian-prisons-plans-imo-headquarters\/","url_meta":{"origin":4558,"position":0},"title":"Nigerian Prisons plans Imo headquarters\u00a0","author":"Amazing Property","date":"March 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Nigeria Prison In meeting with its office accommodation challenges, the authorities of the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS), have move to build an ultra modern administrative headquarters will be sited in Okwu, Umuoma \u2013 Nekede, Owerri North Local Council of Imo State. 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