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Members of the armed squad of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) on Friday prevented an attempted jailbreak at the Bauchi correctional facility.
DAILY POST reliably learnt that the attempt followed a protest by inmates against disciplinary actions taken by authorities of the Service against a staff member said to be smuggling banned items into the facility for inmates.
It was further gathered that five inmates and two personnel of the NCoS sustained gunshot wounds in the ensuing melee.
The injured inmates and personnel of the facility are said to be receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital in the Bauchi metropolis.
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Dingyadi disclosed this while featuring on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme on Friday.
They (SWAT officers) have ended their training and they have been posted to the state police commands that brought them for training.
“They are there with them and they are performing the functions of the SWAT,” he said.
Following the nationwide #EndSARS protests last October, the then Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, disbanded the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) over allegations of human rights abuses and extrajudicial killings.
Adamu also announced the formation of SWAT operatives to replace the disbanded SARS.
About 1,850 members of SWAT were later trained at the Police Mobile Force Training School, Ila Oragun, Osun State and the PMF Training School, Ende Hills, Nasarawa State.