education program in the reasons can
really change people completely in 2008
Naivasha was usually in the news for the
wrong reasons this because the place was
chaotic the place was under Honorable
after some time all this code changed
completely
I want to remind all of us that in 2008
we are the two main blocks which were
accumulated which was accumulating the
sentence inmates
and these inmates used to stay in that
block through the day without any kind
of engagement the problem of navaja was
twofold we had problems with the staff
and problems with inmates the problems
with officers was simply because there
were too much into trafficking within
amis brats who are common people putting
on duty or drug was common image taking
those drugs was common but at some point
we said this will not continue and we
made a major decision as an institution
and we said we will deal with officers
and we will deal with in weeks and we
told them our officers and you needed to
change those who were ready to change we
went together and we really took very
painful decisions because several of
them were dismissed from work others
were taken to other places because of
their that contact now the major trading
point in Russia was 2000
9 when around 1300 enemies who are on
death row who are permuted Trice and we
embark on a serious education program
because all the other places were full
the vocational a carpentry all those
were full so our major issue was ready
to talk to these guys who and Etro and
their sentences were commuted to life to
join the decryption program which was
available but it has a lot of challenges
we had no classrooms in fact they were
studying on an open area what was
separating one level to the other was
just the teacher and blood would
otherwise it was eye open place and it
was not easy but Mercedes even in those
challenges at the end of 2008 we managed
to attain a – in that kind of
environment and one of the inmates
joined Nairobi University and today is a
doctor in vet medicine from rat less now
we are back to seriously on a more on
that program because of the right number
and we do not have enough to just to
take care of the limits what we did
inmates became teachers to thoroughly
mix and we recruited 86 of them to teach
the others officers were just 80 so you
can see a facility with about 1400 in
school and the majority of the teachers
were limits
I think that has not happened anywhere
else in the world
we’re limits our teachers in the in the
penile institution and the performance
innovation right now is comparable with
after those same changes we decided what
can we do for prisoners so that they can
new ekkada they can improve in the
education program what we did we
introduced proper visiting be now
inmates can sit here and the Vista where
they can shake shake hands we decided to
introduce specific activities cultural
activities Family Days made a difference
concretely because their families would
come and direct the follow up what are
you doing in this facility and after
some time the performance of the
institution improved completely and now
as we speak we have four more inmates
who perform do very well and they’re in
various universities in this country one
of them one of them is right now doing
medicine and surgery and the nura
University and what we did we tried and
they got somebody to sponsor that
gentleman now is within a few years you
become a doctor so and so another
product from the same place is now in
masseter Bureau is doing biotechnology
from a prison bring Sciences from a
prison so what I’m saying education
programs can really help to contain
prisoners and make a facility governor
boo and
Yussef and very stable to ensure that
them life in prison is same not in to as
no interruptions so we the future of
Naivasha prison we want to continue this
program and ensure that inmates continue
performing better and europe who get the
necessary support for a moreover so that
they continue doing well where else we
have over 59 almost 1,500 inmates in a
in a school in inside a prison where I was in this one thank you for that