Bankole laments menace of juvenile deliquency

 Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Dimeji Bankole could not hold back tears on being confronted with the menace of juvenile delinquency in the nation’s at the Borstal Remand Home, Adigbe, Abeokuta.

The event occurred weekend during his campaign for re-election to represent Abeokuta South Federal Constituency when he went to the Remand Home to commission an ICT centre he attracted to the reformative institution as part of his constituency projects.

Breaking down emotionally and finding it difficult to address the young inmates, Bankole could only manage to seek for a future audience to interact with the delinquents, noting that he would want to be fully briefed on the reform process.n of ills.

Bankole said with only three of its kind in the country, he did not want to believe there were no juvenile delinquents in other parts of the country,  stressing that “our society will be better off if we can address the ills of the society at this early stage before attitudes are fully formed.”