Prison chief says several inmates, accomplices arrested for drug peddling.

Lagos State Controller of Prisons, Abayomi Oguntuase says several inmates and their accomplices have been arrested for drug peddling.

Oguntuase said those arrested had been handed over to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for prosecution.

He did not give the number of those arrested and when they were arrest but said that the issue of drug peddling in prisons remained a problem.

The prison chief said adequate measures had been introduced to check such crimes.

As a panacea to the drug problem, Oguntuase said social and religious activities had been introduced for the inmates for emotional and psychological balance.

He said To check drug trafficking and give them some stability emotionally, social and religious programmes are being organised for them”.

On alleged cases of sexual harassments by prison officials, Oguntuase denied that no such incident had been recorded in the state or in any part of the country.

Oguntuase said five of the inmates in female prisons in the state were pregnant, and that the pregnancies were brought from outside ``as we expose them to pregnancy tests.

He said eight babies had been delivered and that such children were usually taken to orphanages ``if the relations of the inmates refuse to accept them after they are 18 months old.