8 warders sacked for smuggling Marijuana to Inmates by -Nigerian Prison Service

The Nigeria Prisons Service, NPS, has reported the sacking of eight junior officers for carrying cannabis and other restricted things into the prisons for detainees.

The official representative of the NPS Francis Enobore unveiled this in an announcement on Monday in Abuja where he said the carried things incorporate PDAs and other inebriating substances.

He said two of the offenders, distinguished as Thomas Jatau and Mottallem Yari, was expelled for "trafficking in cell phones". The rest, Mohammed Jibril, Saleh Dan'Azare, Umar Gusau, Mohammed Ja'Oji, Saidu Gusau and Maji Maiku, were associated with sneaking of maryjane and other precluded things into the prison yards, he said.

Enoboro expressed that their expulsion took after the endorsement of the proposal of the NPS Zonal Disciplinary Committee by the Comptroller-General, Mr. Jaáfaru Ahmed. He stated,

"Unlawful access to cell phones and other correspondence contraptions by prisoners has been of incredible worry to the administration of the Prisons Service. This is on the grounds that different criminal exercises have been executed with them by detainees including encouraging escapes and escapes. Correspondingly, aside from the broad wellbeing ramifications of presenting prisoners to the utilization of Indian hemp and other inebriating substances, the demonstration likewise bargains teach and discredits detainee transformation push of the NPS," he said.