Inmates Have No Right To Kill Bedbugs Inside Prison – Prison Worker

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

A 24-year old suspect and worker inside prison, Mr. David Duff has revealed that no inmates was allowed to kill any bedbug behind the prison walls at Kirikiri Prison in Lagos.

P.M.EXPRESS exclusively gathered from Mr. Duff that the prison beds might have been infested with bugs as a form punishment for inmates as they lived big and fat in the prison because they were untouchable by inmates because of consequences that may follow.

Embattled Duff said that if by chance an inmate killed any of the bugs, such inmate will be in serious trouble as it will regarded as having committed murder which attracted severe punishment. Such punishment included washing of the toilets, hard labour or any other odd job available in the prison, for several weeks or months and the inmate will be isolated like a murderer.

“So if the bugs are biting someone, such an inmate will allow them to feast on him because ordinary allegation over threat to the bugs will be considered as murder by other inmates” Duff explained.

Some of the inmates confirmed what Duff had said and further hinted that was why within few days stay in prison, an inmates got infested with skin diseases and no preventive method was put in place by the prison authorities.

P.M.EXPRESS tried to find out why it was so. Duff claimed that he heard it authoritatively that the prison officials took several years to groom the bedbugs and they do not like to hear that an inmates killed them.

Duff was arrested and charged before Ejigbo Magistrates court for affray with four other suspects and was remanded in prison custody where he was then appointed as one of the leaders inside prison. He said that he ended up spending 8 months in custody where he was appointed as one of the pastors conducting services for the inmates.

The Presiding Magistrate, Mr. L.K.J Layeni had granted Duff bail but he was not able to meet the bail condition which made him to stay longer in prison.

However, he later fulfilled the bail condition, was released from custody and came for the trial from home.
The matter came up on Wednesday but it was further adjourned till 6 July, 2018.

When our correspondent contacted some top prison officials, they admitted the place had bedbugs but that were not groomed and trained as the inmates claimed. They said that the place attracted such things because of the poor surroundings and added that no prison authority will give such directive against the killing of the bugs because the inmates were human beings not minding that they were behind bars.