25 fleeing Kogi prison inmates recaptured, 97 missing

The Nigerian Correctional Service has said  25  of the  122  inmates who escaped from the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Koton Karfe, Kogi State, after a section of the centre was overrun by flood following a downpour in the town on Monday have been recaptured.


However, the NCS said 97 of them were still missing.

Meanwhile,  the Federal  Government has ordered the armed forces,  police and  Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps to recapture the fleeing inmates.

The NCS Controller-General, Ja’afaru Ahmed, who visited the centre for an on-the-spot assessment on Tuesday,  said   122 of the 227 inmates took advantage of the situation to escape, but 25 had been rearrested.