Following the clamour generated over the beauty pageant conducted in the female section of Nigerian prisons Kirikiri, Lagos where murder suspect, Chidinma Ojukwu, emerged as Miss Cell 2022, the Controller of the facility, Mrs Lizzie Ekpendu has been redeployed.

Ojukwu, the alleged murder suspect of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, was crowned ‘Miss Cell 2022’, on March 8, 2022 at a beauty contest organised by the prison authorities to commemorate the International Women’s Day.

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The contest generated mixed reactions across the country with some people arguing that the pageant was inappropriate for a suspect facing a murder trial while others argued that the prison authority reserved the right to conduct the pageant of all inmates.

Although the prison authorities defended the action as CEOAFRICA gathered that the comptroller of the female prisons, Mrs Ekpendu, was redeployed to Lagos Command Headquarters, Alagbon, Ikoyi, last week as a result of the matter.