The Controller-General of Prisons, Ja’afaru Ahmed, has disclosed that six out of the 13 prisoners that escaped from the Koton-Karfe prison in Kogi State have been recaptured.
He said that the six pre-trial detainees were recaptured with the assistance of other security agencies and local vigilante groups, noting that they had been returned to the prison.
Ahmed, who visited the Koton-Karfe prison on an on-the-spot assessment of the incident, confirmed that 13 inmates escaped from the prison last Saturday.
The inmates, according to a statement on Sunday by the Prison Service spokesman, Francis Enobore, comprise of 10 pre-trial detainees and three convicts,.
The CG said he had set up a three-man panel to carry out a detailed investigation into the
circumstances surrounding the escape and forward the report to his office for necessary action.
He assured Nigerians that appropriate measures were being put in place to address congestion in
prisons, particularly among awaiting trial prisoners in line with the reform agenda
of the Federal Government.
Ahmed added that security arrangement was being strengthened in and around
prison facilities across the country to forestall future re-occurrence.
This latest jailbreak was the third recorded in Koton Karfe prison between 2010 and 2013.
The latest jail-break is happening about a month after two high profile inmates, Solomon Amodu and Maxwell Ajukwu, who were standing trial for culpable homicide, escaped from lawful custody in Kuje Medium Security Prison, Abuja on June 24, 2016.
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