267 prisoners out of 534 Nigeria prisoners(including former Delta State Governor, James Ibori) in the UK prison will be deported to continue their jail sentence in Nigeria. According to UK government, foreign prisoner are suppose to serve their jail terms in their own country not just in the Uk for that reason other foreigners NOT just Nigerians will be sent back to their countries to finish up their jail terms. Although according to statistic of other foreign prisoners, Nigerian are among top ten countries whose nationals are serving in British jails. The Uk government is offering Nigerian government £1million (N250 million) to help improve its jails.
There are currently 10,786 foreign prisoners in British jails, just three per cent from the 11,135 incarcerated when David Cameron came to power more than three years ago
From statistic of foreigners in UK jail,
Polish nationalities-829
Irish criminals -769
Jamaica -759
Romanians, Nigerians, Pakistanis, Indians, Lithuanians, Somalians and Vietnamese make up the rest of the top
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