16 escape as inmates launch attacks on Keffi correctional center

Sixteen inmates of the Medium security custodial centre, Keffi, Nasarawa state, have escaped from the facility after launching attacks on personnel of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) within the facility.

The Nation gathered that five of the personnel sustained varying degrees of injuries following the attacks.

The Public Relations Officer of the Service, Umar Abubakar, confirmed the incident in a statement issued in Abuja, saying the attacks occurred in the early hours of Tuesday.

Abubakar said, “Some inmates breached the security of the facility and attacked personnel on duty to compromise the situation.”

He also explained, “In the course of containing the situation, five personnel of the Custodial Centre sustained varying degrees of injury, with two currently serious and receiving urgent medical attention at a government health facility”.

He, however, said seven of the fleeing inmates have been recaptured and are now in custody.