The Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS, Osun Command, says it is working with the Department of State Services, DSS, to re-capture seven inmates who escaped from the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Ilesa.
Sunrise reports that the command declared the inmates missing after rainfall damaged the security perimeter of the custodial centre in the early hours of Tuesday.
The heavy rainfall around 2:00 a.m, caused a breach in the facility’s structure, allowing the inmates to escape.
The command’s Public Relation Officer, Mr Joel Oyedokun, told the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, on Wednesday in Osogbo that other security agencies in the state had been informed of the development.
According to Oyedokun, the security agencies are on ground to ensure that the escaped inmates are re-captured.
“We are working with other sister agencies and we have our men on ground in different locations. We have the escaped inmates biometrics, which we are working on.
“Hopefully, as we are getting them arrested, we will be keeping you abreast of the situation. We are on the field working to get them arrested.
“We, the PROs of security agencies in the state, have our own platform and I have since forwarded the information on the escaped inmates to it.
