The newly appointed Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Prisons Service, NPS, Ja’afaru Ahmed, has been accused of falsifying his age.
According to SaharaReporters, in 2015, Ahmed used an age completely different from what he put down when he joined the NPS.
Ahmed was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari in May 2016 as successor to Peter Ekpendu.
Before his appointment, he was an Assistant Comptroller-General the NPS headquarters in Abuja.
SaharaReporters said NPS documents in its possession showed that Ahmed joined the service on November 30, 1985, at the age of 28.
He was posted to the administrative unit at the NPS headquarters.
The documents gave Ahmed’s date of birth when he joined the service on July 21, 1957. The date of birth remained consistent until 2015 when he took off two years off his age and arrived at a date of birth of July 21, 1959.
NPS documents listing members of the top echelon of the service in 2015 boldly showed Ahmed, an indigene of Jega Local Government Area of Kebbi State, as the sixth highest placed officer.
The documents, however, showed a different date of birth to what he claimed at the time he enlisted in the service.
NPS sources disclosed to SaharaReporters that the age falsification was allegedly encouraged by retired General Abdulrahman Bello Dambazzau, the Minister of the Interior, who wanted Ahmed to become the GG of the NPS and spent some time on the post before he retires.
The implication of the falsification is that Ahmed has fraudulently gained two extra years in service.
