One of the criminals who escaped from the Kuje Correctional Centre, following the recent attack on the facility by insurgents, was, on Monday arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command.
The escapee, 28-year-old Yakubu AbdulMumuni, was arrested following an information received by policemen at Sango Ota Divisional Headquarters that the convict was sighted somewhere around Sango Ota.
The Kuje Correctional Centre inmate was said to have escaped from Abuja and found his way to the Sango Ota area of Ogun State where he was eventually arrested by the law enforcement agency.
The state police image-maker, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, stated this in a release, AZ:5310/OGS/PRO/VOL.7/13213/07/202.
He further said that, acting upon the information, the DPO Sango Ota Division, SP Saleh Dahiru, quickly moblised his men and moved to effect the arrest of the escapee.
The escapee was said to have confessed to the police that he escaped from Kuje Correctional Centre on 5 July 2022, when the facility was attacked by terrorists.
He also disclosed that he is a convict who was sentenced to imprisonment at the Kuje Correctional Centre by a Kogi State High Court.
“He stated further that he was convicted by the Kogi State High Court for offence of conspiracy and culpable homicide and was sent to Kuje Correctional Centre,” Oyeyemi added.
The Ogun Police Public Relations Officer also disclosed that the state Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, has ordered the State Criminal Investigation Department to facilitate the immediate transfer of the escapee to the Correctional Centre.
Recalled that scores of heavily armed terrorists bombed their way into the Kuje Medium Security Correctional Centre, in the late night of Tuesday, 5 July and reportedly freed 879 inmates.
Among the inmates freed by the terrorists were, at least, 64 people who were detained on terror-related charges and several other suspects with various criminal offences.
