{"id":60543,"date":"2025-02-05T10:14:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T10:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60543"},"modified":"2025-02-05T10:14:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T10:14:25","slug":"interior-minister-orders-probe-into-okere-correctional-centre-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/05\/interior-minister-orders-probe-into-okere-correctional-centre-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Interior Minister Orders Probe Into Okere Correctional Centre Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has ordered an immediate investigation into alleged criminal activities at the Okere Correctional Centre in Warri, Delta State.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to media reports of misconduct within the facility, Tunji-Ojo warned that any officer found culpable would face strict disciplinary action.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will not allow indiscipline to fester under my nose. Any officer found wanting will face the full weight of the law.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The leadership of the Nigerian Correctional Service must provide explanations,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The minister reaffirmed his commitment to transparency and accountability in the correctional system and urged the public to provide any relevant information to aid the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo &nbsp; The Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has ordered an immediate investigation into alleged criminal activities at the Okere Correctional Centre in Warri, Delta State. &nbsp; Reacting to media reports of misconduct within the facility, Tunji-Ojo warned that any officer found culpable would face strict disciplinary action. &nbsp; &#8220;I will not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":60544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60545,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60543\/revisions\/60545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}