{"id":301,"date":"2017-11-27T17:33:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T17:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=301"},"modified":"2017-12-02T21:46:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T21:46:49","slug":"prisons-dismiss-eight-officers-drug-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/homepage-english\/prisons-dismiss-eight-officers-drug-smuggling","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Prison Service dismisses 8 officers for drug smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ja\u00e1faru Ahmed, comptroller-general of the Nigeria Prison Service (NPS), has ordered the dismissal of eight junior officers for various acts of indiscipline.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ahmed\u2019s action followed the recommendation of a zonal disciplinary committee which found the officers guilty of smuggling prohibited items such as mobile phones, marijuana and other intoxicating substances into prison yards for inmates.<\/p>\n<p>The dismissed officers are: AIP Mohammed Isah Jibril, CPA Saleh Mohammed Dan\u2019Azare, PA 1 Umar Gusau, PA 11 Mohammed Ali Ja\u2019Oji, PA 1 Saidu Ibrahim Gusau and PA 11 Maji Maiku.<\/p>\n<p>Illegal access to mobile phones and other communication gadgets by prisoners has been a source of great concern to the management of the prison service because jailbreaks\u00a0 had been coordinated in the past by inmates using phones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ja\u00e1faru Ahmed, comptroller-general of the Nigeria Prison Service (NPS), has ordered the dismissal of eight junior officers for various acts of indiscipline. 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