Two Senior Prisons Officials Sacked Due To Age, Are Younger Than Prisons Boss Ahmed Who Falsified His Own Age

 

The Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS) representative Francis Enobore reported that the Controller-General of the NPS, Ja'afaru Ahmed, "endorsed the retirement of a Deputy Controller-General and Assistant Controller-General" after a "crisis meeting" purportedly hung on June 27th, 2016.


This declaration comes just days after SaharaReporters solely acquired reports demonstrating that Mr. Ahmed adulterated his age with a specific end goal to keep being utilized in the NPS. This is the most recent in a progression of outrages to shake the NPS including the getaway of a few detainees from Abuja and the illicit contracting of 538 staff. A SaharaReporters examination concerning the wrongfully enrolled individuals from the NPS found that around 68% of them were from 14 northern States.

SaharaReporters additionally found, through archives got from sources in the NPS, that in 2011 and 2012 Mr. Ahmed had his date of birth recorded in authority reports as July 21, 1957. Nonetheless, in 2015, archives started to demonstrate that he was conceived two years after the fact—on July 21, 1959—accordingly dragging out the length of his vocation.

Amid this "crisis meeting," which was not expounded on in Mr. Enobore's press proclamation, Aminu Suley, and Ali Bala Salami were resigned by Mr. Ahmed. As per the same reports used to show how Mr. Ahmed misrepresented his age, Mr. Suley's birthday is recorded as September 1, 1958, with an arrangement to the NPS on November 29, 1982. Mr. Salami, as per these same archives, was conceived on August 25, 1959, and designated to the NPS on August 22, 1984.

This implies both Mr. Suley and Mr. Salami are more youthful than Mr. Ahmed, had his birthday not all of a sudden changed as he neared retirement. Mr. Suley would be two years, one month, and 4 days more youthful than Mr. Ahmed. Mr. Salami would be one year, two months, and twenty days more youthful than Mr. Ahmed.

Mr. Enobore's announcement additionally said that "the choice was taken because of the officers' status in support of the new Controller-General of Prisons and in consonance with military and paramilitary tradition."

The most recent disclosure demonstrates that if Ahmed had not misrepresented his age, he was more youthful than the two authorities he let go yesterday. Mr. Enobore was not accessible to take as much time as is needed of distribution.

source: shara reporters