[FILES] Minister of the Interior, Rauf Aregbesola. Photo; TWITTER/RAUFAAREFBESOLA/OGUNDIRANDOLAPO The Federal Government has called for the cooperation of state governments in addressing the challenges of congestion in custodial facilities across the country. To this end, it has urged states to build holding centres for awaiting trial suspects. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, stated this yesterday at the commissioning of the Osun State Command office complex of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), Osogbo. Aregbesola, in his address titled, ‘Unmatched Infrastructure Development’, revealed that “the entire national custodial facilities have a maximum capacity for 57,278 inmates. But by the last count earlier in the week, there is a total population of 68,747 inmates, made up of 67,422 males and 1,325 females. We have therefore shot above the capacity by 18 per cent.”