Many Nigerians are still grip with the shock sparked by news.
Chidinma Ojukwu, a prime suspect in the killing of Super TV boss, Usifo Ataga, emerged a beaty queen in detention.
Since the report broke on Wednesday, a lot of people have been wondering how the system is able to muster the luxury of getting a murder suspect crowned.
To such people, it is like dancing on the grave of the victim.
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has, however, explained the circumstance behind the emergence of the Mass Comm student of the University of Lagos.
Here is what Rotimi Oladokun, the Command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), says, according to ‘The Nation’:
“I haven’t seen the pictures you are talking about. But in line with International Women’s Day, the female custodial facilities commemorated International Women’s Day with inmates, various inmates without distinction or discrimination against anybody – an inmate is an inmate.
“All the inmates in different cell blocks presented various programmes. Some did theatre presentations, others drama, some poetry, some beauty pageant, some drawings, paintings, comedy. So, various blocks won. It was just like an inter-cell block event.
“There were lots of presentations. It was not an individual thing. It was just the facility’s way of trying to reform the inmates, those still in custody.
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“So, that’s why they commemorated International Women’s Day, that’s why it was done in the female facility, not the male’s.”
Referring to Ojukwu, the spokesman said: “The particular inmate, I don’t know her name. There were various winners.
“The costumes were made by the inmates in the facility and some of the winners got sponsorship to pay for their UME forms, NECO, WASSCE and higher education.
“Some donated libraries to us, apart from some other stationery, and welfare resources. It was not an individual event, so the prizes were collective.
“There were representatives for each block, so maybe the inmate you are referring to was one of such representatives, but it was not an individual event, it was a collective one commemorating International Women’s Day.”
