The Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) has confirmed that there was a jailbreak in the Kuje maximum Prison on Friday night but said it was yet to find out if any inmate escaped or not, but that Charles Okah is still in custody. Spokesperson of the prisons service, Mr. Francis Enobore reportedly told Daily Trust on the phone that there was an “incident” at the prison on Friday night, June 24, 2016. Enobore, debunked the reports that a brother of Henry Okah, jailed leader of the Movement For The Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND, Charles Okah escaped during the jailbreak. “Yes there was an incident yesterday, but Okah was not involved,” he said. “It is not true, Charles Okah is still in custody. I have been in touch with our men in the prison facility and there is nothing like that [Okah escaping],” Enobore said. “The comptroller of prisons has ordered an investigation and that is going on. We want to know if anybody escaped and if yes, what are their identities,” he added. The prisons spokesperson promised an official statement once the preliminary investigation is concluded. Charles Okah Prison Break Charles Okah, a brother of Henry Okah, jailed leader of the defunct Movement For the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND, has escaped from Kuje Prison in Abuja. Signal, reports that a prison inmate informed the online newspaper that Mr. Okah escaped Friday, June 24, 2016, night by simply scaling the prison walls of the prison around 7:45pm Nigerian time. Okah was reportedly in the company on another prison inmate. Both prisoners scaled the walls of the Kuje prison fence. The prison inmate, who did not want to be named, said there are strong indications Okah escaped with outside help, capitalizing on security lapses during Muslim prayers which were happening at about that time. “Someone threw a rope over the fence from the other side. That was how they escaped,” the inmate said. Okah had been on trial in Abuja for the 2010 Independence Day bombing that killed 27 people. Security agencies have been put on alert with a massive manhunt in progress to find and re-arrest him.
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The Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) has confirmed that there was a jailbreak in the Kuje maximum Prison on Friday night but said it was yet to find out if any inmate escaped or not, but that Charles Okah is still in custody.
Spokesperson of the prisons service, Mr. Francis Enobore reportedly told Daily Trust on the phone that there was an “incident” at the prison on Friday night, June 24, 2016.
Enobore, debunked the reports that a brother of Henry Okah, jailed leader of the Movement For The Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND, Charles Okah escaped during the jailbreak.
“Yes there was an incident yesterday, but Okah was not involved,” he said.
“It is not true, Charles Okah is still in custody. I have been in touch with our men in the prison facility and there is nothing like that [Okah escaping],” Enobore said.
“The comptroller of prisons has ordered an investigation and that is going on. We want to know if anybody escaped and if yes, what are their identities,” he added.
The prisons spokesperson promised an official statement once the preliminary investigation is concluded.
Charles Okah Prison Break
Charles Okah, a brother of Henry Okah, jailed leader of the defunct Movement For the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND, has escaped from Kuje Prison in Abuja.
Signal, reports that a prison inmate informed the online newspaper that Mr. Okah escaped Friday, June 24, 2016, night by simply scaling the prison walls of the prison around 7:45pm Nigerian time.
Okah was reportedly in the company on another prison inmate. Both prisoners scaled the walls of the Kuje prison fence.
The prison inmate, who did not want to be named, said there are strong indications Okah escaped with outside help, capitalizing on security lapses during Muslim prayers which were happening at about that time.
“Someone threw a rope over the fence from the other side. That was how they escaped,” the inmate said.
Okah had been on trial in Abuja for the 2010 Independence Day bombing that killed 27 people.
Security agencies have been put on alert with a massive manhunt in progress to find and re-arrest him.
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