Again,Adeleke Gives Succor To Inmates,Donates Cash,Maltresses To Another Prison In Osun

Some of the items donated to the prison

A non governmental organisation, Springtime Development Foundation, has appealed to Federal government on the need to be more conscious about the general well-being of inmates serving jail terms across the nation prisons.

This was even as the Foundation donated 300 pieces of mattresses, pillows and cash to offset the hospital bills of the sick among the inmates.

The appeal was made by the chairman of the Foundation, Dr Deji Adeleke who led members of the Foundation on a charity visit to Ile-Ife Prison yard in Osun State on Friday.

Adeleke who was represented by his vice, Mr Banji Adesuyi expressed great concerns on the deplorable state of some of the nation's prisons.

Adesuyi who recalled that Dr Deji Adeleke through the Foundation had donated no less than 700 mattresses and same number of pillows to the inmates in Ilesa prison in Osun alsosecured the release of about 200 inmates in the same prison.

Adesuyi said Adeleke became aware that inmates of the prison were sleeping on the bare floor when he went to pay a visit to an embattled chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Diekola Oyedele, who was detained at the prison.

He said that the visitation was not only to distribute the mattresses to those that are still in custody but release to a number of inmates who were sentenced with options of fine but were unable to pay, saying without their knowledge help arose through Dr Adeleke.

He noted that distribution of the mattresses and pillows were part of the efforts of the founder to alleviate the suffering of the inmates who hitherto were sleeping on the bare floor.

The Vice Chairman further explained that "the gesture is today extend to the prison inmates in Ile-Ife. Some of the inmates who are unable to pay fine, he said, would be paid and their hospital bills would also be offset."

Echoing a similar view, the Chief Executive Officer, Dr Samuel Oyalabu hinted that the Foundation has concluded plans to empower the inmates so that by the time they serve their jail terms they would be gainfully employed.

Oyalabu said some of the inmates would have the opportunity of learning carpentry work, barbing, computer literacy as well as fashion designing among other.

He therefore charged the inmates to make judicious use of the sleeping material that were being given to them.

In his remarks, Barrister Amos Adekunle said Adeleke was not prompted to secure the release of the inmates or distribute the mattresses because of political reason but purely on humanitarian ground.

Adekunle noted that founder of Foundation believes in finding solutions to problems of poverty, diseases, hunger, ignorance, social and political disabilities

The Foundation according to Adekunle was came to being in 1996 with vision to empower disadvantaged communities and individuals to improve themselves.

Earlier, the Assistant Controller of Prison, Ile-Ife, Mr Ajagono Mathew appropriated the Foundation, its founder and the entire staffs for their good gesture, saying it was first of its kind.