The Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS, has denied studies alleging the unlawful detention of 15 home employees members of former President Goodluck Jonathan on the behest of his spouse, Dame Persistence Jonathan, on the Medium Safety Custodial Centre, Okaka, Bayelsa State.
It had been reported that the employees had been held for practically six years with out trial over lacking jewelry allegedly belonging to the previous First Woman, valued at over N750 million. The studies additionally claimed that Dame Persistence Jonathan was not too long ago sighted in a closed-door assembly with senior officers of the correctional command.
Nevertheless, in a press release issued on Sunday, the Public Relations Officer of the NCoS Bayelsa Command, Assistant Superintendent of Corrections G.T. Isari, dismissed the claims as malicious and unfounded. He firmly said that no such assembly occurred between the previous First Woman and any high official of the command.
Isari clarified that the inmates in query have been remanded by the order of Excessive Court docket 1 of Bayelsa State and have been attending their trials as scheduled. He emphasised that no particular person will be admitted into any custodial centre in Nigeria with no legitimate warrant issued by a reliable courtroom of jurisdiction.
He additional said: “They have been in courtroom on the tenth and eleventh of March 2025, and the final time they appeared was Thursday, third April 2025, when the matter was adjourned to seventeenth April 2025. These inmates have been handled pretty and humanely whereas in custody, and their elementary human rights have been revered.”
