Five inmates died while trying to escape from prisons in Kaduna and Imo states.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Dec 27, 2020
More than 2,058 prisoners escaped from the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) facilities in 2020 following jail breaks in Delta, Edo and Ondo states.
Five inmates died while trying to escape from prisons in Kaduna and Imo states, according to a Daily Trust report.
The most recent jailbreak was the escape of 1,993 prisoners from two correctional facilities in Edo State, on October 19, 2020, which the Comptroller of the facility, Andrew Egbobawaye, confirmed shortly after the jailbreaks.
Taking advantage of the #EndSARS protest, hoodlums using local tools and weapons, broke into the prisons and freed inmates.
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Over 1,600 inmates out of a total of 1,993 persons who were said to have escaped from the Oko Medium Correctional Centre and Sapele Road Correctional Centre, popularly called White House, Benin, on October 19 are still on the loose. The inmates had escaped when hoodlums who masqueraded as #EndSARS protesters broke into the facilities.
While 25 inmates voluntarily returned to the correctional centres one week after the break-in, 38 others were re-arrested by the police in different parts of the state after committing various offences following their escape, while another 241 were said to have subsequently returned on their own.
The new Comptroller of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), Mr Babayo Maisanda, could however not be reached for more information on the returnee inmates and the re-arrested ones. However, a source from one of the centres in Benin who did not want his name in print noted that the Department of State Security (DSS), the police and officials of th