Thirteen inmates in the early hours of Saturday escaped in fresh jailbreak recorded at Koton Karfe prison in Kogi.<\/p>\n
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered from a reliable source that the incident happened at about 7a.m. when the inmates forcefully brought down the wall of the prison.<\/p>\n
The all male prison facility which was inaugurated in 2014 has the capacity to accommodate 180 inmates.<\/p>\n
However, NAN gathered that it was accommodating 263 inmates as at the time of the jailbreak, Saturday.<\/p>\n
It was further gathered that one of the escaped inmates was re-arrested almost immediately by security agents.<\/p>\n
This was the third jailbreak recorded in Koton Karfe as the old prison facility witnessed similar jailbreaks in 2010 and 2013.<\/p>\n
In previous jailbreaks 132 inmates escaped from the prison and majority were awaiting trials.<\/p>\n
It was gathered that Comptroller\u2013General of the Nigeria Prison Service immediately sent a representative to Koton Karfe to assess the situation.<\/p>\n
The State\u2019s Controller of Prison, Musa Maza, who would have shed more light on the incident, did not pick several calls made to his mobile telephone line.<\/p>\n
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