Mr Ja’afaru Ahmed

How I’m tackling jailbreak, restoring discipline to Nigerian prisons — NPS CG, Ahmed

How I’m tackling jailbreak, restoring discipline to Nigerian prisons — NPS CG, Ahmed

Mr Ja’afaru Ahmed is a thoroughbred officer, who has held strategic positions in the Nigerian Prisons Service until May 2016 when President Muhammadu Buhari found him most qualified to be appointed as the Controller General of the Nigerian Prisons Service, an organisation he joined in 1989. Among the posts Mr. Ahmed had held before his appointment as the NPS CG are: Officer in charge, Birnin Kebbi Old Prison; Officer in charge Kano Central Prison; Controller of Prisons, Sokoto State Command; Controller of Prisons, Kebbi State Command; Assistant Controller General of Prisons (Admin) at the National Headquarters; Zonal Coordinator, Zone A Headquarters, Lagos and Deputy Controller General of Prisons (Admin)  at the National Headquarters, Abuja.