Why Tinubu Govt Dismissed Three Top Officials

The President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration has dismissed three officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), including a Controller of Corrections.

Daily Trust reports that the officials were dismissed for various acts of misconduct including gross negligence of duty, absence without leave, trafficking in illicit items, general inefficiency, and falsification of results, among others. 

The NCoS spokesperson, Abubakar Umar, disclosed this to the press in a statement on Thursday, June 27. 

The name of the dismissed controller was however not disclosed. However, Daily Trust gathered that in a letter issued by the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire, and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB), a total of 20 personnel were discharged and acquitted of the various offences they were accused of while one officer who was previously suspended was reinstated after the review exercise.

Also, three personnel were compulsorily retired, six personnel had their ranks reduced, and 13 personnel attracted either verbal or plain warnings The Guardian also reported. 

“These sanctions are in line with the zero tolerance on staff misconducts, a cardinal mantra of the Controller General of Corrections, Haliru Nababa FICMC, MFR, mni, and targeted towards ridding the Service of unscrupulous elements and misfits, so as to improve professionalism as well as to entrench discipline, ethics and excellence in its officers and men,” Umar stated.

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