{"id":171142,"date":"2019-11-28T01:04:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T23:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=171142"},"modified":"2019-11-28T00:06:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T23:06:04","slug":"nine-prison-officers-suspended-over-alleged-1m-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=171142","title":{"rendered":"Nine Prison officers suspended over alleged $1m fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2019\/11\/Nine-Prison-officers-suspended-over-alleged-1m-fraud.png\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB) has approved the suspension of 3 officers and 6 other ranks of the Nigerian Correctional Service implicated in the alleged internet fraud by an inmate.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Francis Enobore, the Public Relation Officer of NCoS disclosed this in a statement to NAN on Wednesday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, had arrested Emmanuel Oluwaniyi, a Deputy Controller, DC, Nigerian Correctional Service, NCS, and Hemeson Edson Edwin, also a DC, for allegedly giving exaggerated medical reports<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST learnt that the said medical reports warranted a convicted internet fraudster, Hope Olusegun Aroke, who is serving a 24-year jail term, being given a referral to be treated outside the facility.<\/p>\n<p>The fraud suspected to have been perpetrated by Hope Aroke, an inmate serving a term of imprisonment in Kirikiri Maximum Security Custodial Centre, Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is based on the preliminary report of the investigation panel earlier constituted by the CG which indicted the officers of complexity in the scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Enobore said the CG who handed down the suspension order, noted that the task of correcting maladjusted persons in the society requires a measure of moral rectitude to make positive impact on offenders in custody.<\/p>\n<p>He, therefore, restated the irreversible commitment of the authority to ensure that those without adequate strength of character and integrity are not allowed to taint the sanctity of the NCoS.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB) has approved the suspension of 3 officers and 6 other ranks of the Nigerian Correctional Service implicated in the alleged internet fraud by an inmate. Mr. Francis Enobore, the Public Relation Officer of NCoS disclosed this in a statement to NAN on Wednesday in Abuja. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,1868],"class_list":["post-171142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-kirikiri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/171143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}