A female prison officer, Mary Ikenye, has been dismissed for smuggling alcohol
into the Kirikiri prisons to Inmates in Lagos .
The dismissal letter signed on behalf of
the Controller-General of Prisons by the officer-in-charge of
discipline, DCP Agun Olatunji, stated that Ikenye was found guilty of
negative activities which bordered on trafficking.
A statement by the Prisons Service
Public Relations Officer, Francis Enobore, on Tuesday in Abuja, said the
wardress’ action contravened the provisions of sections 14 (i) (a) and
82 (n) of Prisons Act, Cap P.29, LFN, 2004, and was punishable under
sections 14 (i) (g) and 83 of the Act.
It noted that her offence posed a threat
to the security of the prison formation, adding that the officer had
been directed to hand over all government property, including her
uniform and Service Identification Card to the authority before leaving.
The statement read in part, “The offence
is usually viewed seriously because of its potential threat to
security. Cases of inmates making illegal phone calls from their cells,
organising jailbreaks and having access to weapons 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 do not augur
well for the security of a custodial institution like the Nigeria
Prisons Service and also put the lives of innocent workers and inmates
in serious danger.”
Nigerian Female warder dismissed for smuggling alcohol into prison
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