THE Senate has said that the real reason for the reported jailbreak in Suleja Medium Security Custodial Centre two weeks ago was because it was built over hundred years ago with mud.
Briefing Journalists yesterday in Abuja shortly after a closed door session with the Minister of Interior, Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, Chairman, Senate Committee on Interior, Senator Adams Oshiomhole, APC, Edo North said that what happened in Suleja was not actually a jailbreak, but the collapse of the moribund bricks of the prison wall, which was built over 100 years ago with local muds.
The Minister of Interior, Hon. Tunji-Ojo, had, during his visit to the affected facility penultimate week disclosed that Government was planning to relocate some Correctional Centres to create better space, security and infrastructures. Senator Oshiomhole said “I know exactly that this particular prison was built in 1914. I think that was the year of amalgamation of Southern and Northern Nigeria for about 200 people. And they now have about 419 inmates. And some of these places were built with mud.
“And so, naturally, people find escape. The good news is that they have what it takes to retrack them. And they have already re-arrested some of them, and the effort is still ongoing to get the rest people.”
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