The Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) said it has elevated 3700 officers across the federation.

Some of the most senior officers decorated by the Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro, at the headquarters of the service in Abuja, include 9 Controller of Prisons (CP) to the rank of Assistant Controller-General (ACG), 5 Deputy Controller of Prisons (DCP) to the rank of Controller, the officers will do their best to uplift the service, saying that the promotion will spur them to do more.

Meanwhile, as part of the promotion exercise, The Nigerian Prisons Service, Zone A, Alagbon, Lagos has decorated 11 of its officers to the rank of Comptroller of Prisons.

Before their elevation, the 11, 10 males and 1 female, were all Deputy Comptrollers of Prisons serving in Lagos and Ogun states.

The officers who joined the NPS between 1988 and 1993 were decorated at Alagbon by the Assistant Comptroller-General of Prisons, Mr. Esu Isaac.

According to Isaac, the promotion of the officers followed their success in the NPS promotion examinations.

They include Mr. Segun Oluwasemire, the Administrative Officer of Lagos State Prison Command; Mr. Tinuoye Olumide of the Maximum Security Prisons, Kirikiri;  Mr. Usendiah Joseph, the Intelligence Officer, Zone A Command, Lagos.

Others were Mr. Ladipo Tunde, of the Medium Security Prisons, Kirikiri; Mr. Babarinde Olugbenga of Zone A Prison Headquarters, Lagos and Mr. Afolabi Akinyemi.

Also decorated were Mr. Ailewon Noel of the Maximum Security Prisons, Abeokuta; Mrs. Akpanama Helen, Medical Officer in-charge of Lagos Prisons Headquarters; Mr. Benson Abolade of the New Abeokuta Prisons; Mr. Adebisi Adewale of the Ijebu-Ode Prisons and Mr. Olayemi Omotayo of Ogun State Command headquarters.

Isaac who noted that the 11 DCPs were promoted on merit and based on available vacancies also charged them to strive towards elevation of the Nigerian Prisons Service.

While responding on behalf of the 11 officers, Oluwasemire who admitted that their promotion did not come as a result of their extraordinary intelligence,  promised that the officers would strive to live up to expectation by putting on their thinking caps always.

* Culled from Nigeria Daily Times