₦airaland Forum

There is pervading disquiet and uneasy calm among officers and rank and file of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) over the continuous stay in office of Ja’afaru Ahmed as the Controller-General of the Service, one year after the extension of his tenure.

Recall that Ahmed was billed to retire on July 21, 2019, after a four-year tenure of office, but his appointment was renewed by President Muhammadu Buhari who was said to have been impressed by his impressive track records.

Many officials of the NCS were of the opinion that the most honourable thing for Ahmed to do is to leave office without being coerced to do so, more than one year after the tenure extension by the president.

Sources at the Service, who spoke with PeesReporters on condition of anonymity, said it was not a thing of honour for the Controller-General to have chosen to remain in office, one day after July 21, 2020, the expiration date of the one-year extension of his tenure.

A particular source said gloom and despondency have taken over in NCS as the expectation was that Ahmed would have, without being promoted, pulled out of service to allow for others to grow in their career.

“The continued stay in office of Ja’afaru Ahmed as the Controller-General of the Nigerian Correctional Service is appalling and illegal, after having served out both his four-year tenure and the one year extension by President Muhammadu Buhari.

“He has spent a total of five years as the head of the correctional service. He was supposed to pull out of Service on July 21, 2020, but nothing of such is happening, even today, July 29, 2020.
“It is now more than one week after the expiration of his tenure extension by Mr President. His continued stay in office is demoralising to those under him who are looking forward to career progression in the Service.

“The failure of Ahmed to do the right thing by pulling out as the Controller-General negates all the tenets of the hallmark of the Service, as epitomised by career progression.

“There is no justification for him to continue in whatsoever capacity. There is no morality in his continued stay in office as the Controller-General. This is the time for him to take a bow,” one of the sources said.

President Buhari had on July 21, 2019, vide a letter signed the Director (Press and Public Relations), Ministry of Interior
Mohammed Manga, extended the tenure of Ja’afaru Ahmed as the Controller-General of the NCS and promoted 10 others in the Service.

According to the letter, the president approved the extension of tenure of office of Ahmed by one (1) calendar year with effect from 21 July, 2019.

The extension, Nigerians were told, was informed ny his track record of innovative reforms in the Prisons Service and the need to consolidate and complete some of the then on-going programmes.

Specific mentions were made of human rights compliance, reformation and health care, agricultural and education programmes for the inmates.

Source - Peesreporters.com

sherylbakky:
It's a bit complicated dear, reason I recommend a therapist for him.

Some emotional disorders are innate, childhood and environmental factors might just trigger these disorders in people.

When his guardian says dont be too happy abt it, you not the first to achieve that. they were only trying to let him push further than the better. They wanted the best for him, it's not too much to say (that might be how they address their children too, he stays in boarding house, so he might not really know how they address their kids too), but his own neurotransmitters might have transmitted those information in a different way to him.

There are different creatures according to nature, nurture only triggers what's in nature sometimes. That's why you wonder why siblings trained by same parents behave differently. He might have developed the same issue, if he stayed with his parents as well.

It's more than the mere things we see. For him to get help, the best thing to do is to consult a therapist.

Thank you. I will try get a therapist when i can afford one. I understand ur view but u wrong. This aint my intrepretation of things. This is just d case of u will never do better or be at par with my own children. Its a lot more complicated than this

My parent divorced when i was so little. My mother took me to her brother and his family place for a better life as she claimed. She left me with them. I grew up calling my Uncle and his wife, dad and mum and my cousins, brothers and sisters. Even though i was always aware that they not my real parent. All through my growing up my real parent did not call to talk to me for once. To be honest, my new family wasnt rich at the time but i grew up believing they took good care of me. I was given food, normal amount of chores like their real children and good education only different was when the real children were sent to private school and i was sent to a public boarding school. But growing up, that wasnt a problem for me. However, as i turned into adult, I realized that while they took care of me physical. I was turtured emotionally, in there eyes, im never good enough, any achievement i attained was met with dont be too happy abt it, you not the first to achieve that. It got so bad that i was hardly wanted around so i tried staying away as much as i could. Somehow i became a man who believes he is not good enough for the best things in life. I became a man that believe my place is always in second place. Believing there is nothing special about me. This is not to blame a family that took care of me, far from it. I am always appreciative of them. They could have turned me to a slave and torture me everyday but they didnt. So i owed them a bunch of gratitude. This post is to see if anybody here have an idea of how i can break from this mental prison i am. And i later find out that my real dad has long remarried and his own family now. My real mum also reached out not long ago, she also have remarried and have her own family.