The Nigerian Prisons
Service (NIPS) said it had re-arrested nine of the 144 inmates that
escaped during the Nov. 3 gunmen attack on Koton Karfe Prison in Kogi.
The Controller of Prisons in the state, Mr Adam Omale, who disclosed this to
the News Agency of Nigeria
The prisoners were
recaptured in Kogi and neighbouring states.
Omale
also said that 22 of the fleeing inmates had returned to the prison on their
own.
He said among those re-arrested
were six convicts while the remaining ones were awaiting trial.
He said that the
service was on the trail of 113 inmates still on the run, and assured that all
of them would soon be recaptured.
The controller also said
that the NIPS headquarters in Abuja, the Department of State Services (DSS) and
the Police had commenced separate investigations into the incident.
He said the outcome of the
investigations would be made public as soon as it was ready.
Omale
called for speedy completion of work on the new prison facility under
construction in Koton Karfe.
He also called for the
establishment of another prison facility at Lokoja to reduce the pressure on
the Koton Karfe prison.
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