Greater than 1,400 fleeing inmates from the Owerri Custodial Centre in Imo State and the Kuje Medium Custodial Centre within the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, have but to be recaptured after the jailbreaks.
Two years after the assault on the Owerri custodial centre, 864 fleeing inmates have but to be recaptured as sighted by our correspondent on the Ministry of Inside’s web site on Friday.
The custodial centre was attacked by gunmen on April 5, 2021, who forcefully launched a complete of 1,844 inmates in custody.
Nevertheless, the profiles of the inmates couldn’t be considered correctly to determine if any of the 864 inmates had been recaptured.
Additionally, a 12 months and 5 months after the assault on the Kuje custodial centre, over 500 fleeing inmates are nonetheless at giant.
Their names, photographs and jail identification numbers of the fleeing inmates who had been declared wished had been seen and sighted on the web site of the Nigerian Correctional Service on Friday.
It was indicated on the web site {that a} whole of 543 fleeing inmates had been nonetheless at giant, whereas 30 escapees had up to now been recaptured.
The PUNCH had earlier reported that over 900 inmates, together with 64 high-profile Boko Haram terrorists, fled the ability throughout a jailbreak on July 5, 2022. Safety operatives then launched a manhunt after which 421 of them had been recaptured.
The Federal Authorities, nonetheless, uploaded others’ knowledge to the database of the Worldwide Prison Police Organisation.
Talking with Saturday PUNCH, the NCoS spokesperson, Umar Abubakar, stated measures had been being deployed to trace down fleeing inmates, noting that the assaults had been unlucky incidents that the service has since nipped within the bud.
“In the mean time, we’ve got deployed completely different measures in recapturing fleeing inmates resembling the usage of technological devices in monitoring them. Up to now, we’ve got recaptured variety of the escapees, and we’ve got deployed overt and covert measures to trace down these nonetheless at giant.”
Additionally, a safety professional and the Chief Government Officer of Beacon Consulting Restricted, Kabir Adamu, said that the aim of utilizing custodial centres to function a deterrent to criminals had began dropping its purpose.