The Nigeria Correctional Service, NCoS, has said that a recent report by Premium Times on extortion of claiming that officials of the service are extorting money from suspects on court remand before admitting them into custody is untrue, malicious and unfounded.
But in a communique, the service called on members of the public to disregard the report saying that it is unfounded and written with bad intent. “The report cannot be true as it is best described as a talk show. Suspects are usually escorted from the courts to the custodial facilities by officials of the prosecuting agencies, under whose watch, such admissions are done. The process of admission into a custodial facility starts immediately after the suspect is presented by the official with an accompanying detention warrant from a court of competent jurisdiction.
“To set the record straight, no reporter of any news platform contacted the Service on the issue; it is unfortunate that a Premium Times reporter claimed to have called for clarification on the subject matter,” he said.