Prison Attack: Police Re-arrest 67 Fleeing Inmates
No fewer than 67 inmates that escaped during the attack on the Federal Prison, Ado-Ekiti, have been re-arrested by the police.
Spokesman of Ekiti State Police Command, Mr Victor Babayemi, made this known while briefing newsmen in Ado-Ekiti yesterday.
He disclosed that they were arrested at various divisions like Ido, Ikere Ekiti and 14 other police stations across the state.
Those arrested, according to Babayemi, include notorious inmates facing armed robbery and murder charges and they are presently being detained at the police headquarters.
The police spokesman, however, stated that some of the escaped prison inmates voluntarily surrendered themselves to the police after running away from the scene of the incident for fear of being attacked.
According to him, acting on a tip-off, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Taiwo Lakanu, led a team to the hideout escaped criminals who engaged them in serious gun duel before 10 of them were arrested .
Babayemi said that the command had commenced investigation into the matter and gave assurance that the masterminds of the attack would face the law.
“We have asked the prison authoritiers to give us the actual number of the escaped inmates.Running away from lawful custody is a criminal offence. It is not a natural occurrence and we have to find out what led to the crime.”
On the kidnapped nurses, he said the police and local hunters had rescued five of them from the kidnappers’ den by Monday morning.
He said the police had recovered the car they took away when the three nurses were accosted along Orin-Ido road last Friday and whisked away by suspected armed men.
Babayemi said the local government director of Administration, Mr Tayo Olawuyi, who was kidnapped on Monday last week, was yet to be contacted, as his abductors had not contacted any of his family members.
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