Henry Shobowole escaped during a prison break last October.
They were some of the 1,993 inmates who were freed when thugs attacked two Medium Security Correctional Centres in Benin on October 19, 2020.
The thugs that set them free had capitalised on the nationwide #EndSARS protests that saw hundreds of Nigerians demonstrate against years of police brutality.
The jail breaks forced Edo State governor,
Godwin Obaseki, to impose a state-wide 24-hour curfew in a bid to contain the situation.
The governor also gave ultimatums to the inmates to voluntarily return to their correctional centres or face the full weight of the law.
Four months after the jail breaks, it is understood that hundreds of the inmates are still at large, successfully evading authorities.
Hundreds of escaped inmates remain free 4 months after prison break in Nigeria
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A State High Court in Benin City, Edo State, on Friday, Feb 12, sentenced a SARS officer, Joseph Omotosho, to death for conspiring with four other constables, who are currently at large, to kill a car dealer in 2015.
The slain car dealer, Benson Obodeh, 26, was suspected by the police to belong to a criminal gang which allegedly stole a Peugeot car in Lagos.
He was said to have been arrested at his home in Benin City on May 21, 2015, and tortured to death the same day by four police officers. including the SARS officer, Omotosho.
His corpse was dumped at the Specialist Hospital in Benin City, with a different name by one of the officers that killed him.
Justice Ohimai Ovbiagele of an Edo State High Court in Benin City, over the weekend sentenced a police constable, Joseph Omotosho, to death by “hanging or chemical infusion” because the police officer was found guilty of the murder of one Benson Obodeh, a car dealer in 2015.
Omotosho and four other members of his team currently on the run were arraigned on an eighth count charge bordering on conspiracy, stealing and murder.
Other defendants in the suit marked: NO. B/CD/48C/2015 are; Adeleke Adedeji, Oniyo Musa, Abena John and Henry Shobowale.
The five defendants who served with the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a police unit that was notorious for its brutality and other forms of human rights abuses were earlier dismissed from the Nigerian police to pave the way for their trial.
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