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Published 6 May 2021
The Imo State command of the Nigerian Correctional Service on Wednesday said that over 1,200 inmates of the Owerri Correctional Centre were still at large following the April 5 jailbreak.
The state Public Relations Officer of the NCS, Goodluck Uboegbulam, said only 600 inmates had returned voluntarily to the centre.
He added that strategies were already in place to ensure that the fleeing inmates had were rearrested and brought back to finish their jail terms.
Uboegbulam said, “We also call on the general public to assist with useful information that would help us to apprehend the fleeing inmates because they constitute serious security threat.
IMO BOILS: Gov’s house bombed, IPoB Cmdr, members killed
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Police, Civil Defence, Fire Service operatives also dead
Aggrieved politicians responsible State govt
’15 people carried out attack with petrol bomb’
Four policemen, soldier injured
By Evelyn Usman & Chinonso Alozie, Owerri
Less than one month after Owerri Correctional Centre and headquarters of Imo State Police Command were attacked, the country home of Governor Hope Uzodinma was bombed yesterday.
The incident, which happened at 8:15 am at his village, Omuma, in Oru East Local Government Area, resulted in the death of four security operatives.
Same day, the Commander of Eastern Security Network (ESN), an outfit facilitated by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPoB), and six members of the outfit were killed during a shootout with security forces in the state.