The Controller of Kirikiri Female Prison in Lagos, Mrs Lizzie Ekpendu, has been deployed over a beauty pageant organised at the facility which was won by a murder suspect, Chidinma Ojukwu.
The pageant, tagged “Miss Cell 2022” organised by the prison facility to mark this year’s International Women’s Day, had generated an uproar, with many wondering how a murder suspect could be given such publicity.
Ojukwu is facing trial over alleged murder of Usifo Ataga, the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV.
She was crowned ‘Miss Cell 2022’, on March 8, 2022 at a beauty contest organised by the prison.
Although the prison authorities defended the action, the comptroller of the female prisons, Mrs Ekpendu, was redeployed last week as a result of the matter.
Ekpendu was said to have been redeployed to the Lagos Command Headquarters, Alagbon, Ikoyi.