Ekiti Prison attack: Police rearrest 67 escapees No fewer than 67 inmates of the Nigerian Prisons, Ado-Ekiti that escaped following the Sunday night attack on the facility have been rearrested by the police. The Public Relations Officer of Ekiti State Police Command, Mr Victor Babayemi, said the figure was aside the escapee inmates that returned to the facility on their own between Monday and yesterday. Babayemi said the police commissioner, Taiwo Lakanu, following intelligence report, led a team to a notorious hideout in Ado-Ekiti on Monday night, which led to the re-arrest of 10 notorious criminals facing armed robbery and murder charges after a gunshot duel. The police spokesman, who said efforts were on to arrest the remaining escapee inmates, could however not give their number, saying: “We have requested the actual number of prisoners that escaped from the Prison Service.” He said: “The attackers forced all the inmates out of the prison; the attack was unnatural but we are working on several leads. I must tell you that the police have begun investigations into the matter.” Babayemi also said the police had rescued five persons from a kidnappers’ den along Orin Ekiti Road. include three female nurses abducted on their way from work last weekend along Ido Ekiti Road and two men earlier kidnapped by the criminals. Babayemi, who said the rescue mission was carried out with the assistance of local hunters, added that the car in which the three nurses were kidnapped had been recovered. According to him, the police were on the trail of the kidnappers just as efforts were being intensified to locate whereabouts of the Local Government Director of Administration, Mr Tayo Olawuyi, who was kidnapped last week Monday. He said the abductors of the council chief had not contacted any of his family members. However, the attack on the prison has affected normal judicial activities at the state Magistrate and High courts in the last two days as inmates that were usually brought there in prison vans to answer criminal charges were not seen as suspects involved might have escaped along with others. The Ekiti State Comptroller of Prisons, Mr Kehinde Fadipe, said the top echelons of the service and the Minister of Interior, Mr Abba Moro, would soon be in the state to assess the situation.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 07:43:35 +0000
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