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How NSCDC Foiled Another Jailbreak In Edo – Official

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  • This follows an attack on a correctional facility in Owerri, Imo State, where gunmen freed over 1,800 inmates two weeks ago

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Edo Command, has disclosed that it foiled a jailbreak attempt by inmates at the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) facility, Ubiaja, Esan South East Local Government Area.

Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the command, Richard Ogbebor, in a statement in Benin said that the attempted jailbreak occurred from 15:00 hours to 17:00 hours on Wednesday.

Ogbebor explained that the corps had received a distress call on the attempted jailbreak and subsequently mobilised its personnel led by Samuel Ogbeide, an Assistant Superintendent of Corps 1, to the facility.

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He said that on getting to the facility, it was discovered that the inmates had broken out from their cells and were already engaging the correctional officers in a fight.

The PRO stated that in a bid to bring the development under control some of the officers sustained different degrees of injury.

He further said that with assistance from the personnel from the Nigerian Army, 4th Brigade, and the Edo Command, Nigerian Police Force, the inmates were eventually overpowered and taken back to their cells.

He added that security had been fully beefed up at the correctional facility by all security agencies.

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