The Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons Services Board has suspended three senior prisons officers over the release of former Governor of Adamawa State, Bala Ngilari serving a five-year jail term in Yola prison.

The affected officers include CP Peter Tenkwa, DCP Abubakar Abaka and SP John Bukar.

They were also indicted of issuance of unauthorised medical report on Ngilari.

The letter dated April 3, 2017 and signed by the Director/Secretary of the Board, Mr. Sunday  Ogu approved the suspension of the officers pending the outcome of all necessary investigations into the matter, a statement on Tuesday in Abuja by the prisons service public relations officer, Francis Enobore said.

The Zone ‘C’ Coordinator of the Nigerian Prisons Service, ACG Bala Isgogo had last week ordered the immediate removal of the officer in-charge of Yola Prison, Abaka and a nurse, Bukar over their complicity in the unauthorised medical report on  Ngilari.

The two officers were also issued queries for  their roles in the bail granted to Ngilari on health grounds by the court after he had been jailed by an Adamawa State High Court.

Justice Nathan Musa had on March 6, sentenced Ngilari to five years in prison without an option of fine, for violating the Public Procurement Act in the award of contract for the procurement of 25 vehicles.

The vehicles, which were for commissioners, were purchased at the cost of N167 million.

Musa, in his judgment, had declared that due process was not followed in the transaction.

Ngilari, having appealed the sentence, went back to the same court that convicted him, and asked for bail, pending the determination of his appeal.

Acting on Abaka’s instruction, Bukar had issued a medical report to the Adamawa State High Court claiming that Ngilari was sick and would require medical attention in a Canadian Hospital in the United Arab Emirates.

But the prisons service said that Abaka and Bukar did not have the mandate to issue the medical report in which the court based its decision to grant bail to the convict.