The Sun reports that a rampage
took place at the Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison, Lagos, Nigeria Thursday, as
some inmates who started the riot allegedly escaped before they could be
caught.
The paper reports that visitors have been prevented from
visiting, with heavily armed security men manning the gates and carrying out
thorough checks on vehicles coming out of the premises.
Shop owners and passersby interviewed by the paper, also
confirmed the incident.
“ This is not the route that the inmates take when they
are escaping because of the heavy security presence around the area
leading to the prison.You also have a police station facing the prison
directly,and this is why you hardly see them passing through the main gates.
Escapee inmates go through the bush behind the prison, I guess that is where
the search team should concentrate their efforts..”
The riot was blamed on what some inmates termed as ‘highhandedness
on the part of the new Deputy Controller at the Maximum Security Prison, DCP
Kayode Odeyemi,’ reports the Sun.
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