Thirteen inmates escaped in a fresh jailbreak recorded at Koton Karfe prison in Kogi in the early hours of Saturday.
The
News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, gathered from a reliable source that the incident
happened at about 7a.m. when the inmates forcefully brought down the wall of
the prison.
The
all male prison facility which was inaugurated in 2014 has the capacity to
accommodate 180 inmates.
However,
it was accommodating about 263 inmates as at the time of the jailbreak,
Saturday.
One
of the escaped inmates was re-arrested almost immediately by security agents,
NAN reports.
This
was the third jailbreak recorded in Koton Karfe as the old prison facility
witnessed similar jailbreaks in 2010 and 2013.
In
previous jailbreaks, 132 inmates escaped from the prison and majority were
awaiting trials.
It
was gathered that Comptroller–General of the Nigeria Prison Service immediately
sent a representative to Koton Karfe to assess the situation.
The
Kogi State Controller of Prison, Musa Maza, who would have shed more light on
the incident, did not pick several calls made to his mobile telephone line.
Saturday’s
jailbreak occurs about a month after two prisoners escaped in a jailbreak from
a maximum security prison in Kuje, Niger State.
-NAN
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