- from Yekini Jimoh -
FOLLOWING Wednesday night’s attack on Koton-Karfe Prison in Kogi State by alleged Boko Haram sect members, the state command of the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) said, on Thursday, that it had re-arrested 25 of the 119 inmates that escaped from the prison.
The spokesperson for the prisons service, Mrs Hadiza Aminu, a deputy superintendent, disclosed this while speaking with newsmen, yesterday.
According to her, the attackers were not Boko Haram members, but armed robbery suspects.
The re-arrested inmates were picked up in different locations in Koton-Karfe and other villages on the Lokoja-Abuja highway between Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
She said that the service had launched a manhunt for the remaining inmates, urging them to report themselves voluntarily to the service immediately.
The deputy superintendent of prisons re-affirmed that all the 119 inmates that escaped during the gun attack on the prison by yet-to-be-identified men were all awaiting trial, explaining that all the convicted inmates remained in their cells.
She said that a conventional warder, Mr Richard Sesan, was the official killed during the attack, adding that the service had earlier confirmed the escape of 119 out 120 inmates awaiting trial in the prison.
