{"id":76701,"date":"2025-10-15T12:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76701"},"modified":"2025-10-15T12:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:13:07","slug":"ncos-justifies-transfer-of-sheikh-abduljabbar-kabara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/15\/ncos-justifies-transfer-of-sheikh-abduljabbar-kabara\/","title":{"rendered":"NCoS Justifies Transfer of Sheikh Abduljabbar Kabara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Merciful Omoba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), Kano Command, has defended the transfer of inmate Sheikh Abduljabbar Kabara to another custodial centre, saying the move followed due administrative process.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Wednesday, the Command\u2019s Public Relations Officer, CSC Musbahu Lawan-Kofar Nassarawa, said the transfer complied with operational guidelines and the NCoS Act, 2019, which empowers the Service to manage inmates across facilities nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that such transfers are guided by security, inmate classification, and rehabilitation needs, assuring that Kabara\u2019s welfare and legal rights remain protected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe transfer does not affect the inmate\u2019s legal status, right of appeal, or access to legal representation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kano Controller of Corrections, Ado Inuwa, reaffirmed the Service\u2019s commitment to safe custody and rehabilitation of offenders.<\/p>\n<p>An Upper Shari\u2019a Court in Kano had, in December 2022, sentenced Kabara to death by hanging for blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Merciful Omoba &nbsp; The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), Kano Command, has defended the transfer of inmate Sheikh Abduljabbar Kabara to another custodial centre, saying the move followed due administrative process. In a statement on Wednesday, the Command\u2019s Public Relations Officer, CSC Musbahu Lawan-Kofar Nassarawa, said the transfer complied with operational guidelines and the NCoS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172,1681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76701","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76703,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76701\/revisions\/76703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}