Prison officer turns prisoner for ‘wee distribution’

A prison officer, Abibula Nankpa, has been sentenced to 13 years imprisonment for possessing narcotic drugs.

Abibula Nankpa, a Second Class Officer (2CO) attached to the Ankaful Main Camp Prison, was, however, acquitted and discharged on the first count of supplying narcotics as the court could not establish who the drugs were meant for.

It would be recalled that on 5th August, 2016, the prison officer was shot at the hip by guards at the Ankaful Maximum Security Prisons when he was found to be throwing some items over the walls of the facility.

He was arrested and handed over to the police as the items were suspected to be Indian hemp. The case lingered on from that time until the 30th April when judgment was read.

The presiding judge in his judgment stated that the prison officer should have known better as a law enforcement official.

Nankpa has since started his sentence.

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