No fewer
than 270 inmates of the Minna Medium Prison, Niger State, escaped yesterday
after an attack by six gunmen.
The incident came barely a week after a similar attack on the
Federal Prison on Afao-Ekiti Road in Ado- Ekiti, during which 320 of the 446
inmates escaped. Yesterday’s attack in Minna occurred about 4 pm when convicts
were released to take a stroll within the prison yard. Following the attack,
270 of the 323 inmates were said to have escaped. A competent source revealed
to Sunday Sun that the attack was probably carried out to set
two notorious convicted robbers in the prison free. They are Ayo (a.k.a Eze ego),
a dismissed MOPOL officer, and one Osama. According to the source, the two were
convicted in Kebbi and Edo states respectively and were serving jail terms in
Minna.
During the attack, a prison official (name withheld) was wounded
by the gunmen who subsequently made away with arms and bullet proof vests meant
for prison warders. An eye-witness further disclosed that the gunmen
dispossessed a man of a white car, which they later abandoned. The gunmen,
however, snatched a Toyota Sienna car and escaped with it. A resident of the
area, Alhaji Dejo Afolabi, who spoke with Sunday Sun, narrated how he narrowly escaped being shot by
the gunmen.
He said he
had just come out of a mosque near the prison when he was confronted by the
gun-totting men of the underworld. In a swift response to the situation, about
20 of the escapees were re-arrested and returned to the prison barely two hours
after the operation.
Ekiti State
jailbreak is still generating controversy, as the ruling Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) and the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) continue to
trade words over the incident. Meanwhile, the Federal Government in a bid to
uncover those behind the attack on the Federal Prison on Afao-Ekiti Road in
Ado-Ekiti, has set up an investigative panel. The panel is expected to make its
findings known to government and make recommendations.
2 comments:
Prison palava
always setting up panel for everything in Nigeria, what is the duty of police, sss and cid
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