The presence of a VIP like the former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh (retd.) in the notorious Kuje Prison, Abuja, has generated excitement and curiosity among the inmates.
Sources say many of the inmates were amazed to see the former military chief in prison custody barely one year after his image loomed large across the nation.
Badeh is said to have rejected food from the prison and opted to feed himself pending the time he would be able to perfect his bail conditions. He was granted a N2billion bail.
Badeh is keeping a low profile in prison. A source said on getting to prison, his bio-data and other important details were taken before he was escorted to the prison officer’s office and allocated a cell.
He was said to have opted to feed himself. It was learnt that Badeh’s rejection of the prison food may not be unconnected with the poor quality of the food served inmates in Nigerian prisons.
The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Prisons Service, Peter Ezenwa shocked the nation last month when he said that a paltry sum of N222.30k was budgeted by the service to feed each inmate per day.
Ezenwa who stated this when he appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Interior to defend the Prison Service’s 2016 budget warned of a possible revolt if things continued this way.
Meanwhile, Badeh's lawyer hopes he'll be out from prison by Monday as they've gotten the N2bn surety.
Sources say many of the inmates were amazed to see the former military chief in prison custody barely one year after his image loomed large across the nation.
Badeh is said to have rejected food from the prison and opted to feed himself pending the time he would be able to perfect his bail conditions. He was granted a N2billion bail.
Badeh is keeping a low profile in prison. A source said on getting to prison, his bio-data and other important details were taken before he was escorted to the prison officer’s office and allocated a cell.
He was said to have opted to feed himself. It was learnt that Badeh’s rejection of the prison food may not be unconnected with the poor quality of the food served inmates in Nigerian prisons.
The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Prisons Service, Peter Ezenwa shocked the nation last month when he said that a paltry sum of N222.30k was budgeted by the service to feed each inmate per day.
Ezenwa who stated this when he appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Interior to defend the Prison Service’s 2016 budget warned of a possible revolt if things continued this way.
Meanwhile, Badeh's lawyer hopes he'll be out from prison by Monday as they've gotten the N2bn surety.
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