Ataga: Why we allowed Chidinma compete in beauty pageants — Prisons

The Nigerian Prison Service Kirikiri has explained the reason it permitted a 300-level Mass Communication student of the University of Lagos, UNILAG Chidinma Ojukwu, and other inmates at its facilities to participate in a beauty pageant.

Ojukwu, the alleged murder suspect of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga June 21, 2021, is standing trial for the offence at the Lagos High Court, sitting at Tafar Balewa Square (TBS), Lagos.

The Pictures of the pageant flooded social media since Wednesday and sent tongues wagging on the propriety or otherwise of allowing non-convicts such as Miss Ojukwu to participate in the event.

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The beauty pageant was held within the Kirikiri prisons on Tuesday, March 8, 2022.
Ojukwu was said to have been crowned Miss Cell 2022.

But the prison’s Lagos State Command said the pageant was only one of several other activities organised to mark International Women’s Day (IWD).

IWD is celebrated annually on March 8, to commemorate the social, political and economic achievements of women