Solutions to serial jailbreaks in Nigeria

This year alone, there have been three of such in Owerri, Kabba and more recently, Oyo town. Last October, during the #EndSARS protests several Nigerian prisons and police cells were breached by some criminal elements in society with thousands of detainees and inmates released. Many of them have never been recaptured despite the threat for them to either voluntarily come back or the Federal Government will publish the names of the escapees in the media and put them on the Interpol watch list.

Tragically, two law enforcement agents, a soldier and an Amotekun Volunteer Corps member, were killed by the bandits in the attack while a female Amotekun member is on the danger list at the hospital for injuries sustained in the attack. Public Relations Officer, Nigeria Correctional Service, Oyo State Command, Olanrewaju Anjorin, said the Oyo Custodial Centre was established in 2007 with a capacity of 160 inmates but had a total population of 907 at the time of the attack.

Early this year, precisely on Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021, unknown gunmen attacked the Imo State Police Command headquarters and Owerri Correctional Centre leading to the release of 1,844 inmates. Recall that similar incidents had happened in Edo and Ondo states last October during the #EndSARS protests.

I have written severally on the issue of jailbreak in Nigeria, the last time before today being on April 7, 2021, after the Owerri jailbreak. Looking at the statistics, most of the attacks on the correctional centres took place over the weekend and the majority of the escapees are awaiting trial inmates. Despite years of purported criminal justice reforms and specifically prison reforms, there is still a lopsided number of awaiting trial inmates vis-à-vis the convicts. This is not right.

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