The Ondo State Police Command yesterday said 54 out of the 175 prisoners, who escaped when gunmen attacked the Olokuta Prison in Akure, the state capital, had been arrested.
The arrested inmates, according to the Command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Wole Ogodo, had been returned to custody.
Ogodo described as incorrect, the report in some national dailies that 10 travellers were killed during the jail break.
The PPRO said no death was recorded during the incident either on the side of the security agents, inmates or any traveller.
He said the jail break was mainly aimed at liberating some members of the gang being held in the prison, urging journalists to crosscheck their information before publication.
About 175 inmates of Olokuta Medium Prison in Akure
on Sunday escaped from the facility, when gunmen numbering about 30 attacked the prison located in the outskirt of the state capital.
It was gathered that the gunmen, who arrived the prison premises located few metres away from the headquarters of the 32 Artillery Brigade, Owena Barracks, at about 12 a.m., started shooting sporadically.
Before they arrived the main entrance, the gunmen were said to have destroyed street lights along the prison entrance with bullets during which one of the officers on duty was hit by bullet. The walls of the prison were equally riddled with bullets.
Ogodo said the gunmen destroyed the wall leading to the inmates cells with grenades when their attempts to blow off the main entrance was unsuccessful.
Speaking with journalists, the Prison for the state Prison Comptroller, Mr. Tunde Olayiwola, described the attack as unusual saying the authority would soon bring the culprits to book.
Olayiwola said the incident happened around 12: 05 a.m. just as he dispelled the rumour that the attack was masterminded by the Boko Haram sect.
“We cannot specifically identify those behind the attack, but the attack is unusual. One of our officers was injured during the attack and he is in the hospital right now receiving treatment but I assure Nigerians that those behind the attack will be brought to book,” he said.
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