Top newspaper report -How Charles Okah Hid SIM Card In Pant Over SodomyAllegation - NPS

The Nigerian Prison Service, (NPS) has faulted the Sodomy allegations by lawyer to Charles Okah, Mr Festus Keyamo, for his alleged involvement in the October 1, 2010 independence Day bomb blast, pointing out that the inmate, was in possession of a Nokia C2 Phone and an MTN Sim card which he hid in his Pant.

The petition, dated Tuesday, July 30, 2013 and addressed to the Comptroller General of Prisons, had fingered two prisons warders, Mr Isah Musa and Tanko Gokuje of the Kuje Prisons as trying to sodomise Okah.

The Prisons authority, in

statement signed by its spokesman, Mr. Ope Fatinikun, on Sunday in Abuja, explained that contrary to the allegation of attempt to sodomise the inmate, a preliminary investigation carried out by the service suggests that nothing of such ever occurred.

Although the statement acknowledged that there was a routine search of the prisons by eight of it officers, headed by the chief warder of the prisons, it further explained that, Charles Okah who had always exhibited bad conduct and repeatedly resisted the check was eventually found with an MTN Sim Card and a Nokia C2 phone as well as a memory card which he hid in his pant.

The statement also revealed instances where Okah had bridged electrical wires in his cell thereby throwing the whole prisons into darkness.

Its further posits "In order to discourage the smuggling of hand sets and other prohibited articles, searches have been beefed up in the prisons through out Prisons formations.”

The service noted that Okah's allegations, including extra judicial killing alleged in the past, were obvious efforts to intimidate the prisons draw unnecessary attention and subvert the rules and regulations of the prisons.”

The Prisons boss who vowed not to be deterred from carrying out his statutory function as provided for in the CAP 366, Law of the Federation of Nigeria, 1990 in spite of what he described as diversionary antics calculated by Mr Charles Okah and his cohorts to draw unnecessary sympathy from unsuspecting public.