The Nigerian Correctional Service has confirmed that seven out of 281 inmates who escaped from the correctional center in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital have been recaptured.
The inmates escaped followed the severe flooding that damaged both public and private facilities in Maiduguri, the state capital and some other parts of the state.
The statement issued by the Public Relations Officer of the Service, Umar Abubakar, said those recaptured have been returned to custody.
“The Service is working in synergy with other security agencies as both covert and overt deployments have been activated to look out for them.
“Presently, a total of seven (7) inmates have been recaptured and returned to custody, while efforts are on ground to track down the rest and bring them back to safe custody.
“The flooding which occurred on Tuesday, brought down the walls of the correctional facilities, including the medium security custodial centre Maiduguri, MSCC and the staff quarters in the city.
“Upon the evacuation of inmates by officers of the Service with support from sister security agencies to a safe and secure facility, it was observed that 281 inmates were missing,” he said.
Abubakar, stated that pictures of the escapees are made available to the public, adding that the Service is in custody of the details of the escapees including their biometrics.
“While this effort is on, the public is assured that the incident does not impede or affect public safety,” he added.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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