The Ibara Prison in Abeokuta has witnessed an incredible drama on Wednesday, after a middle-aged woman, Fatima Balogun, was arrested by the officers of the Nigerian Prisons for hiding a mobile phone wrapped in a cellophane inside a soup prepared for her lover in the Prison.
Drama: Woman hides phone in soup for inmate lover, caught by Prison authority -dailyfamily.ng
According to Tribune’s report on this story, Balogun was arrested at the Prison yard entrance while attempting to smuggle the phone into the prison.
Following this development, the State Controller of Prisons, Mr Benson Abolade, has said this action as perpetrated by Balogun is a threat to national security, adding that the action was against Prison operations.
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In his words, he said sharp objects, drugs, weapons, handsets as some of the items prohibited in the Prisons.
Abolade said the woman would dance to the tune of the music as she would be handed over to the Police for prosecution so as to serve as a warning to others.
“It is an offence to bring these articles to the yard without the permission of the Prisons officials.
“The Controller General frowns at such action because he knows that it impinges on the national security and that is why he gave a tall order that Special Intelligence Unit should be formed in all the Prisons formations nationwide,” Abolade said.
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Meanwhile, Balogun upon interrogation has confessed to the crime saying that she truly hid a phone inside a soup for her boyfriend identified as Ganiyu Ajibode who was remanded in the Prison for armed robbery.
She said, “I hid the phone inside the stew because I know they will not allow me to take it to him in the Prison. I did not know it is bad. I wrapped it in a cellophane bag. We have been together for two years. I live with my father having been abandoned by my husband who left me with two children. I regretted my action and I plead for forgiveness.”
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