Prisons Wardress sacked for alcoholic drink trafficking
(Nigeria) A female Prisons staff attached to Kirikiri female prisons, Lagos State, has been dismissed from the service for smuggling alcoholic drinks into the prison yard.
According to the dismissal letter signed on behalf of the Controller-General of Prisons by the officer incharge of discipline, Agun Olatunji, the staff was found guilty of negative activities which borders on trafficking, an act that contravenes the enabling provisions of Sections 14 (i) (a) and Section 82 (n) of Prisons Act Cap P.29 LFN 2004 and punishable under Sections 14 (i) (g) and Section 83 of same Act.
A statement by O.F. Enobore, Head, Public
Relations NPS in Abuja on Tuesday, said "Trafficking, in prisons parlance, is the act of smuggling
prohibited item(s) or unauthorised information into or out of the prison yard.
The offence is usually viewed seriously because of its potential threat to
security.
"Cases of inmates making illegal phone calls from their
cells, organising jail breaks, having access to weapons, escapes, etc are all
traced to trafficking sometimes perpetrated by staff and this has often been a
source of embarrassment not only to the Service but the nation at large. Such
compromising acts no doubt, do not augur well for the security of a custodial
institution like the P risons Service and also put the lives of innocent staff
and inmates in serious danger.
"The arrest of the wardress is certainly an indication of the
dawn of a new era in prison management in Nigeria and a justification of the
recent mass re-deployment of officers and men nationwide to strengthen
security.
"It will be recalled that the Controller General of
Prisons, Ja'afaru Ahmed in his maiden address to officers and men of the
Nigerian Prisons Service decried the appalling state of indiscipline in the
System which, more often than not, drags the reputation of the Prisons Service
to public ridicule.
"He therefore, vowed to restore discipline in the Service as a
convenient entry point towards making the prisons a secured and true
reformation centre, warning that those that lack the moral strength to impact
positive values on offenders in custody
should have no business being prisons
officers.
"The staff is to hand over all government properties
including her uniform and Service Identification Card to authority before
leaving."
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