President Buhari’s New Prisons Comptroller-general Ahmed Falsified His Age

Mr. Ja’afaru Ahmed, the new Comptroller-
General (CG) of the Nigerian Prisons Service
(NPS), was involved in age fabrication. Mr.
Ahmed, who was appointed by President
Muhammadu Buhari in May as successor to Dr.
Peter Ekpendu, was an Assistant Comptroller-
General the NPS headquarters in Abuja.

According to NPS documents in the possession
of SaharaReporters, Mr. Ahmed joined the
service on 30 November 1985, at the age of 28.
He was posted to the administrative unit at the
NPS headquarters.

The documents gave Mr. Ahmed’s date of birth when
he joined the service on July 21, 1957. The date of
birth remained consistent until 2015 when Mr. Ahmed
sliced two years off his age and arrived at a date of
birth of July 21, 1959. NPS documents listing members
of the top echelon of the service in 2015 boldly showed
Mr. Ahmed, an indigene of Jega Local Government Area
of Kebbi State, as the sixth highest placed officer. The documents, however, showed a different date of birth to
what he claimed at the time he enlisted in the service.
NPS sources disclosed to SaharaReporters that the age
falsification was encouraged by retired General
Abdulrahman Bello Dambazzau, the Minister of the
Interior, who wanted Mr. Ahmed to become the GG of
the NPS and spent some time on the post before he
retires. The implication of the falsification is that Mr.
Ahmed has fraudulently gained two extra years in
service.