Saturday, 30 July 2016

Kogi prison loses 13 inmates to jailbreak

Kogi State prison

Thirteen detainees got away in new escape recorded at Koton Karfe jail in Kogi in the early hours of Saturday.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) discovered that the occurrence happened at around 7a.m. at the point when the detainees strongly cut down the wall of the jail.

The all male jail office which was introduced in 2014 has the ability to suit 180 detainees.

In any case, NAN assembled that it was housing 263 detainees as at when the escape occurred on Saturday.

It was additionally assembled that one of the got away detainees was re-captured very quickly by security operators.

This is the third escape recorded in Koton Karfe as the old jail office saw comparable escapes in 2010 and 2013.

In past escapes 132 detainees got away from the jail as majority of them were anticipating trials.

It was accumulated that Comptroller–General of the Nigeria Prison Service quickly sent a delegate to Koton Karfe to survey the circumstance.


The State's Controller of Prison, Mr Musa Maza, who might have revealed more insight into the occurrence, did not pick a few calls made to his cell phone line. 

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