NPS Nabs Female
NPS Nabs Female Hard Drugs Smuggler at Kano
Prison
The Intelligence Unit of the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS)
attached to Kano Central Prison has intercepted a female visitor
Rifkatu Anthony for attempting to smuggle in 39 wraps of Indian
Hemps into the prison.
The suspect from Badawa Quarters in Kano Metropolis cleverly
concealed the hard drug in harmless Packs with the intention to
deliver them to inmates in the prison.
Upon interrogation, Miss Rifkatu Anthony feigned ignorance of
the Illicit substance in her possession claiming that the items
were given to her by one ThangGod for delivery to the prison
inmates.
The Controller of Prisons Kano, Magaji A Abdullah had Commended
the officers and Men of the Command for their untiring efforts in
ridding the Service of the menace of Trafficking.
Recently the Controller General of Prisons, Ja’afaru Ahmed
approved the the dismissal of Prison Personnel for aiding
trafficking (smuggling) illicit drugs into the prison yard for
prisoners.
The action of the Controller General was part of a concerted
effort by the administration to continue to maintain discipline and
ensure that inmates in Prison custody were only handled by those
with the required rectitude to do so.
“There is no gainsaying that exposing inmates to the use of hard
drugs is an anathema to the reformation goal of the Prisons Service
as it does not only precipitate health complications but also
constitutes security risk to innocent lives in and around the
prison” the statement noted.
Mr. Ja’afaru therefore, warn that any officer caught aiding or
failing to apprehend smugglers act will be shown the way out of the
Service as they have no business being in a character reformation
agency. He had assured the public that the management of the NPS
would remain irrevocably committed to sustain the peace and calm
now existing in prisons across the country in order to enhance
reformation and rehabilitation of offenders in prisons custody.
DSP Musbahu Lawan
CPRO NPS Kano Command