REVEALED: Female Inmates to Be Checked for Pregnancy, as Sex Scandal Rocks Owerri Prison
Some
female inmates of the Owerri Prisons have been checked for pregnancy at
the Federal Medical Centre in the capital city of Imo State, to
ascertain their status, following reports of alleged sex scandal that
rocked the prison. Their test results are still being awaited.
Reportedly,
the affected female prison inmates have been taken to the hospital on
the directive of the Comptroller General of Prisons, Zakari Ibrahim.
According
to the investigation by LEADERSHIP, the Comptroller General sent a
delegation to the Owerri prison shortly after reports of the alleged
sexual relationship between some unnamed prison officials and the
inmates were made public. It has been also learnt that the pregnancy
test became imperative after a particular inmate was allegedly
discovered to be pregnant a few months after her conviction.
According
to an undisclosed source, the parents of the particular inmate who came
to visit their convicted daughter were shocked to see her in advanced
stage of pregnancy.
“When
the girl was brought to the prison, no one noticed that she was
pregnant until few months later. When
her parents came to visit her,
they were shocked to find that she was pregnant. I think that is why the
management is conducting the pregnancy test,” the source said.
It
was further gathered that the prison officials had in the past taken
some female prison inmates to the centre to undergo pregnancy tests.
Mr. Isaiah Amaliri, the State Prison Controller, did not give any precise comments on this story.
