Sixty-seven inmates, who escaped from the Federal Prisons, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Sunday, have been rearrested.
DAILY POST recalls that gunmen, last week, invaded the Ado-Ekiti Prisons, detonated a bomb and launched an attack that lasted 45 minutes, freeing over 300 inmates.
Speaking with newsmen yesterday, Police spokesman Victor Babayemi, in Ado-Ekiti, said “the very notorious ones facing murder and robbery charges” were among those rearrested.
Babayemi said the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) leader, Niyi Adedipe, a.k.a. Apase, and the state chairman of the Road Transport Employers Association (RTEAN), Bayo Aderiye, a.k.a. Ojugo, did not escape.
The spokesman said the Commissioner of Police, Taiwo Lakanu, led a patrol team to a “notorious spot”, where 10 of the escapees were arrested after what he called a “serious exchange of gunfire”.
Those rearrested are to be charged with jailbreak.
“The CP led a team on Monday night to some of the hideouts and there was an exchange of gunfire. We had an intelligence report on where they were hiding.
“At that notorious spot, 10 of them were rearrested but no life was lost. But I want to add that investigation continues”, Babayemi said, adding that “operation is still ongoing, the DPOs are still bringing their reports and we have also asked the prison authorities to give us the actual number of the escapees.
“Some of them said they ran for cover to escape being hit by bullets. Apase and Ojugo did not leave the prison. They were not among the notorious ones rearrested.
“The attackers opened the cell doors and told them to escape. It was not a natural occurrence; some people are behind the attack. We are investigating it to determine if there was any complicity”, he added.
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