File Photo: Inmates at the Kirikiri Medium Security Prison
A statement by F. Enobore, the spokesperson for the Nigerian
Prisons, on Tuesday, a female Prisons staff attached to Kirikiri female
prisons in Lagos, has been dismissed from the service for smuggling
alcoholic drinks into the prison yard.
The dismissal letter signed on behalf of the Controller-General of
Prisons by the officer incharge of discipline, Agun Olatunji, said that
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.
"Trafficking, in prisons parlance, is the act of smuggling
prohibited item(s) or unauthorized information into or out of the prison
yard. The offence is usually viewed seriously because of its potential
threat to security," Enobore said.
“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 Prisons 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,” he said.
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