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Corruption!!! Job Racketeering Scandal Rocks Nigeria Prisons Service by Nobody: 5:21pm On Jul 27, 2015 |
Job racketeering scandal rocks prisons service 26.07.2015. … applicants pay millions for posts, promotions Warders extort prisoners, relatives A thriving payment-for-jobs racket has been uncovered within the Nigerian Prisons Service that has left junior cadre officer disgruntled and is largely responsible for periodic jailbreaks, mass violation of prison rules and regulations, extortion of prisoners and relatives and drug dealing right within prison … applicants pay millions for posts, promotions Warders extort prisoners, relatives A thriving payment-for-jobs racket has been uncovered within the Nigerian Prisons Service that has left junior cadre officer disgruntled and is largely responsible for periodic jailbreaks, mass violation of prison rules and regulations, extortion of prisoners and relatives and drug dealing right within prison walls. Insiders said the senor officials brazenly “sell” job opportunities for amounts such as N1m, N700,000 and N350,000/400,000 to desperate unemployed degree holders, HND holders and school certificate holders respectively through periodic backdoor recruitment exercises. Job positions allegedly being sold include Assistant Superintendent of Prisons, ASP, Inspector of Prisons and Prisons Assistants, PA, which was said to adversely affect upgrading and promotion of serving officers. It was learnt that posting of senior officers to man sensitive positions in prisons across the country was also influenced by how much money the prospective officers would pay and not by merit, a practice that was said has corrupted most of the Deputy-Comptrollers of Prisons, DCPs, Chief Warders and Yard masters who man prison yards and has resulted in the poor quality food being served to inmates, reckless extortion of money from inmates, poor maintenance of facilities and gross abuse of prison rules. In most cases, it was said that the helpless and uninformed inmates are made to pay for the maintenance of electric appliances and boreholes just to recoup the money officers had paid as bribes before postings. The Controller- General of Prisons Dr. Peter Ezenwa Ekpendu, is being blamed for the rot allegedly perpetrated in the system. Wanton corruption was found to be pervasive in the system ranging from maladministration, to poor welfare programme implementation, reckless extortion, indiscriminate promotion and postings of staff among others. Some officers who spoke with our correspondent claimed that those recruited since 2009 with school certificate as prisons assistant and, and supposed to be promoted at the end of every three years intervals even after obtaining their first degrees for six years running, were neither promoted nor upgraded but subjected to series of fruitless promotion interviews as a matter of formality. Other reliable insider sources disclosed that they are not being paid salaries commensurate with other sister organisations like Customs, Immigrations and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence corps, yet, junior officers are subjected to pay deductions and non-payment of allowances over the years. Some of the junior cadre officers, who separately spoke to this newspaper under conditions of anonymity apparently, regretted that even though the junior workers are the main workforce of the service, they are being suppressed, marginalised, neglected and voiceless. “We are not being paid as uniformed officers like our sister organisations, our promotions don’t come as and when due. We observe almost regularly, deductions from our salary monthly. The incessant jails breaks and riots we experience in prisons yards are because of the negligence we suffer, we hold the keys to the cells, operate the normal prisons rules and nobody comes to work happy because of the way we are being maltreated. We know the normal duties of prison officers but they lay the whole blame to terrorism and riots without finding out the root causes. We have actually lost confidence because of the problems the authority imposed on us and, thus derive no pleasure in doing the job which we have been assigned to do’. But Ekpendu in his recent familiarization tour of prisons in Owerri, capital of Imo State said while fielding questions from pressmen that the incessant jailbreaks were caused by the use of mobile phones by inmates and explained that it was the reason why he banned the use of cell phones in prisons. The corruption in the service trickles down to the inmates according to findings by our correspondent. It was gathered that many inmates who are awaiting trial or jailed for serious offences like armed robbery, kidnapping, murder, Indian hemp and human trafficking among others are found right inside the prison yards, smoking and trading in Indian hemps with the connivance of the prisons officers in-charge of the yards. Most worrisome is the criminal conspiracy between some unscrupulous prisons officers and lawyers who defraud inmates and their parents or guardians of hige sums of money for bail applications. Other types of extortions alleged in the yard are alleged payment of N50, N100 and N300 to warders before they would allow inmates to walk or exercise within the perimeter of the prison yard. “Parents, guardians, friends and other relatives of inmates are made to part with N400 on each visit before they would be allowed to see or give food to their beloved ones. Inmates pay money to get mattresses and are incessantly harassed and dehumanised. They are served poor quality food even dogs cannot eat”, one source said. Part of the problem it is was learnt has to do with high rate of congestion, which puts pressure on the system. Random visits to some prisons across the country such as Abia, Imo, Ebonyi and Anambra have the same shocking experience of maladministration and neck-deep corruption. And in similar cases, the visited prisons accommodate inmates beyond their capacities. For instance, Umuahia prisons in Abia State was built for 500 inmates but it keeps about 1,000 as at the time our reporter visited. Efforts to get the NPS head quarters to comment of the allegations were not successful. However, the Abia State Comptroller of Prison, Mrs. Nnenna Kalu, in an interview with Sunday Mirror however denied all the allegations of extortion and maladministration rocking the system. She said the prisons were being run based on extant rules spelt out by the service. Source: http://m.nationalmirroronline.net/article/job-racketeering-scandal-rocks-prisons-service/?page=7&article-id=32466
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Re: Corruption!!! Job Racketeering Scandal Rocks Nigeria Prisons Service by Abugab(m): 5:25pm On Jul 27, 2015 |
Na today? All ministries, parastatals, commissions, agencies....are all involved in job racketeering cum scams 1 Like |
Re: Corruption!!! Job Racketeering Scandal Rocks Nigeria Prisons Service by Nobody: 5:35pm On Jul 27, 2015 |
Abugab: The NPS CG I learnt is even messing the system up big time. crimes ranging from selling of NPS FG lands in Enugu and other state commands Such is the level of corruption. |
Re: Corruption!!! Job Racketeering Scandal Rocks Nigeria Prisons Service by eduxerxes: 6:17pm On Jul 27, 2015 |
Just wait until #babaGoSlowAndSteady visits their plight. All those corrupt idiots will run! They will turn from prison officers to prisoners. #ItrustPMB 2 Likes |
Re: Corruption!!! Job Racketeering Scandal Rocks Nigeria Prisons Service by Abugab(m): 6:47pm On Jul 27, 2015 |
Tesiday: Very sad. Those who got what they did not merit will meet their time with due diligence and due process soon |
Re: Corruption!!! Job Racketeering Scandal Rocks Nigeria Prisons Service by refreshrate: 6:50pm On Jul 27, 2015 |
Why someone would even want to work here in the first place is beyond me talk less of racketeering. God abeg. |
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