The Officer in Charge of Suleja Custodial Centre, AbdulRahman Musa, an Assistant Controller of Corrections allegedly seduced the wife of an inmate, impregnated and married her.
Controller General of the Nigerian Correctional Service NCoS, Haliru Nababa has initiated a high-level disciplinary procedure into the circumstances leading to the illicit marriage contract.
It was gathered that the inmate (names withheld) is currently awaiting trial at the facility on charges of armed robbery and possession of illegal firearms.
According to Vanguard, while the wife had been visiting her inmate husband regularly, she recently complained to relatives that she could no longer bear the agony of having her husband behind bars indefinitely and that she would be willing to file for a divorce.
The troubled inmate had consequently approached the officer in charge, ACC Musa to help talk to the wife and make her see reason while she should keep faith with him.
Vanguard reported that a top officials at the NCoS Headquarters revealed that ACC Musa had taken advantage of the situation to lure the emotionally-deprived wife to his bed.
“Having gotten her pregnant, he then proceeded to tie the knots with her without even his own Personal Assistant knowing. He did everything in secret to the point that not a single personnel knew about it”, said the source.
Consequently, ACC Musa on resumption from his wedding had approached the inmate and given him N10, 000 while advising him to forget his wife, saying “she is a useless woman”.
When the troubled husband returned to the “yard”, he was said to have narrated his plight to his fellow inmates who became infuriated and starting singing protest songs.
While ACC Musa made to calm the situation down, the angry inmates were reported to have bathed him with faeces and urine.
Multiple sources disclosed that the randy officer has now been redeployed to Kano state with immediate effect.
Meanwhile, the Federal Capital Territory FCT Command of the NCoS said it has begun an investigation into allegations.
Command Controller of Corrections, Dr AbdulRahman Maiyaki, disclosed this in a statement signed by the Command’s spokesperson, Chukwuedo Humphrey.