To avoid a repeat of Owerri prison break and other prison breaks across the country, the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS, has requested for the assistance of the Nigerian Army to train its armed squad personnel to check the invasion of custodial centers by armed hoodlums.
Francis Enobore, the Public Relations Officer of the service, said this in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday.
He said that the request was contained in a letter which the Acting Controller-General of NCoS, John Mrabure, sent to the Chief of Army Staff, Ibrahim Attahiru, observing that the request had been granted.
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According to him, the training which is expected to begin soon will cover relevant tactical components to strengthen the capacity of Correctional Service armed guards to engage invaders adequately.
“The capacity building is one of the many strategies being designed by the management of the service to resist and prevent further violation of custodial centres in the country,” he said.
However, recall that Anaedoonline.ng broke a news on Imo State Police Headquarters and Prisons was set on fire, as well over 1500 inmates free by unknown gunmen.
It was revealed that some unknown gunmen attacked the station at the wee hours of the night.
The attackers razed the Imo State Police Command headquarters situated in Owerri and burnt almost all the vehicles parked at the command headquarters.
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The hoodlums freed all the suspects in almost all the cells at the State Criminal Investigation Department of the police command.
The gunmen operated from 1am till 3am on Tuesday.
They sang solidarity songs at the Government House roundabout for about 30 minutes before attacking the facilities, a security source confided in our correspondent.
On breaking into the prison facility with the aid of explosives and dynamite, the attackers told inmates, “Go home, Jesus has risen. You have no reason to be here.”
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