Kuje Prison Break; 421 Inmates Recaptured, 454 At Large

The Nigerian Correctional Service has announced that a total of 421 inmates have been recaptured while 454 others are still at large.

This is just as the committee said it had summoned the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola; and Comptroller-General of the NCoS, Haliru Nababa, to appear before it over the recent attack on the Kuje Custodial Centre.

The committee also invited the Commander of the Nigerian Army Platoon on duty on the night of the attack.

Chairman of the committee on Correctional Service, Edwin Anayo, who made this known during an oversight visit to the facility on Thursday, disclosed that the lawmakers met 115 inmates.

“If you subtract it, it will give about 879 that escaped that night,” he noted.

The inmates, including 69 suspected Boko Haram members, had escaped Kuje Medium Custodial Centre on Tuesday last week after members of the Islamic for West Africa Province attacked the facility.

Anayo decried that 12 other Custodial Centres had been attacked across the country recently. He said the recent jailbreaks by gunmen leading to the release of inmates are worrisome.