Okonkwo Samuel
How correctional service Authorities wrongly and unjustly dismissed three officers from Owerri in July 2021 without principle of Fair hearing and natural Justice.
In September 2016 when Kalu Mathew Deputy controller of corrections was incharge of owerri custodial center there was an excape through the correctional service fence where security cables were cut into pieces. With a view to save his office, he immediately alleged that inmates excaped through the courts three days before the incident that occurred in the night, officers that went to court where not on night duty.
Immediately they where issued with charged sheets which they answered immediately, after the normal trial and retrial, they where all declared innocent by the adjudicating panels. Unknown to the officers that the Deputy controller of prisons then kalu Mathew has organized with his close Ally, sir Alloy Uchenwa who was the then Assistant controller general (ACG) (now retired) he was Incharge of Zone “E” zonal command owerri which includes Imo State and other states .. they set up disciplinary committee without inviting the officers.
They found them quilty and made so many recommendations against them. 4years after, the three officers where dismissed based on the report written against them without their knowledge. The officers have been in pains and agony as a result of the treatment meted to them. The matter is pending before owerri industrial court. They authorities are been compelled to come fought and defend the dismissal than frustrating the officers.
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