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 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 but was accommodating about 263
inmates.
One of the escaped inmates was re-arrested
almost immediately by security agents.
This is 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.
Musa Maza, the Kogi State Controller of Prison, has so far been unreachable.
Saturday’s jailbreak occurs about a month
after two prisoners escaped in a jailbreak from a maximum security prison in
Kuje, Niger State.
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