An inmate has escaped from the custody of the Benin Central Prison operatives on Monday morning while working his menial fatigue job.
PM News reports that the inmate while working at the prisons headquarters noticed that the supervising prison warden was inattentive and saw to opportunity to escape as he ran through Reservation Road, in GRA.
It was reported that the inmate pulled off his prison uniform in front of the NUJ Press Centre as he continued running away in his shorts, through the famous Benin Moat at the back of the prison headquarters.
Unofficial sources at the prison headquarters however said the prison official that was supposed to be guarding the inmate while he was working claimed to have gone to eat when the incident occurred.
Officials of the Edo Prison Service were seen combing bushes in adjoining streets and the Benin moat searching for the runaway inmate while at the prison headquarters there was a search party being organised to assist in arresting the fleeing inmate.
A top official said an official report was yet to be made on the matter.
According to him, “The official that took him out has not report any incidence to us but he does we will be able to say anything.”
He said this after the State Comptroller of Benin Prisons, Mr. Effiom Etowa, could not be reached for comments.
Prison break in Nigeria may be attributed to corruption, poor funding of the prison services, poor prison facilities, inadequate security features such as CCTV, Motion sensors, high wall made up of barbed wire and sometimes electric fencing of the walls
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