NCS Confirms Female Inmate’s Death At PH Correctional Centre

The authorities of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS), Rivers State Command have confirmed the death of a female inmate, Mrs Edna Loveday Woleru, serving her life sentence at the Port Harcourt Maximum Correctional Centre in Port Harcourt.
The Public Relations Officer of the service, Mrs Juliet Okoni, while confirming the incident to The Tide, said the deceased died of an undisclosed protracted illness.
According to her, the woman had an illness she had been battling with before she was sent to the custody through a court judgment delivered at the state High Court, last Thursday, saying that she also came to the correctional centre with her drugs.
She averred that the deceased died at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital where she was rushed to when her condition became severe, adding that the doctors confirmed her dead at the hospital.
“Yes, I can confirm to you that she died of a protracted illness that she had been struggling with. She also came with her drugs, and when the situation became intensive, she was taken to the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital, where she died”, the PRO stated.
The late inmate, a prophetess, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, by Justice Adolphus Enebeli of the state High Court in Port Harcourt for preparing a poisonous charm that allegedly caused the death of a fellow male prophet in Emohua Local Government Area of the state.
The deceased, a prophetess with one of the new generation spiritual churches in Rumuche community in Emohua, was sentenced to life imprisonment for preparing a poisonous substance in the name of love portion for one Onyema Bright-Worlu, to administer on her man-friend, late Israel Georgewill, who was a prophet in another spiritual church within the community.
The state prosecution counsel, Chidi Ekeh, who also confirmed the death of the prophetess, last Monday, in Port Harcourt, said she died, last Saturday following a brief illness, saying that her corpse remains the property of the Federal Government even in death, and may not be released to her family.