The Nigeria Correctional Services says measures are being implemented to locate and apprehend inmates who have escaped from their facilities.
The NCoS spokesperson, Umar Abubakar,revealed this during an interview with The PUNCH.
Abubakar stated that the service has utilized various strategies, including the use of technology, to track down the fleeing inmates.
He said “At the moment, we have deployed different measures in recapturing fleeing inmates such as the use of technological gadgets in tracking them.
“So far, we have recaptured a good number of the escapees, and we have deployed overt and covert measures to track down those still at large.”
It would be recalled that More than 1,400 fleeing inmates from the Owerri Custodial Centre in Imo State and the Kuje Medium Custodial Centre in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, have yet to be recaptured after the jailbreaks.
Two years after the attack on the Owerri custodial centre, 864 fleeing inmates have yet to be recaptured as sighted by our correspondent on the Ministry of Interior’s website on Friday.
The custodial centre was attacked by gunmen on April 5, 2021, who forcefully released a total of 1,844 inmates in custody.
However, the profiles of the inmates could not be viewed properly to ascertain if any of the 864 inmates had been recaptured.
Also, a year and five months after the attack on the Kuje custodial centre, over 500 fleeing inmates are still at large.
Their names, images and prison identification numbers of the fleeing inmates who were declared wanted were visible and sighted on the website of the Nigerian Correctional Service on Friday.
