Mastermind of Abakaliki jail break, awaiting trial for almost 10 years

                            
Controller-General of the Nigeria Prisons Service NPS, Ja’afaru Ahmed made this statement on Sunday morning in Abuja.

Trouble started when prisons officials were about to carry out routine cell-search in the morning but the inmates in
a particular cell resisted the exercise. “They suddenly became riotous, broke other cells and released the inmates. They eventually broke into the workshop to arm themselves with dangerous weapons and severely attacked some staff trapped in the yard while others made for the main gate and pulled it down”,

Built in 1946 with an installed capacity of 387 inmates, the Abakaliki Prisons had 920 inmates as at Thursday. Of the figure, “811 are awaiting trial prisoners leaving just 109 as convicted inmates. The ring leader had in fact, spent about nine years awaiting trial,” he said.

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Built in 1946 with an installed capacity of 387 inmates, the Abakaliki Prisons had 920 inmates as at Thursday. Of the figure, “811 are awaiting trial prisoners leaving just 109 as convicted inmates. The ring leader had in fact, spent about nine years awaiting trial,” he said.



source vanguard