WE ARE STILL ON THE TRAIL OF FLEEING 28 IKOT EKPENE PRISONS INMATES, SAYS CONTROLLER GENERAL
Ahmed regretted that, about 40 inmates found their way out of Ikot Ekpene Prisons in a broad daylight around 11.45 a.m, but declared that any staff found wanting over the ugly development would have to face the full wrath of the law.
He described the facilities in Ikot Ekpene Prisons as well fortified, but attributed the jailbreak to lapses on the part of prison staff and debunked insinuations from some quarters that the jailbreak was due to infringement on the fundamental rights of the inmates.
His words, “These prisoners were not rioting because there was maladministration in the prison system, but they organised it in order to get freedom illegally. That is what actually happened. It was not that they were not being fed or given medical attention or not taken to court’.
“Any insinuation anywhere, I state that investigation I have here before me, that there was nothing than they took lapses on the part of staff and organised to escape”, Ahmed emphasized
The prisons boss assured Akwa Ibom people and the entire nation that the fleeing inmates would soon be recaptured to face their trials and also commended the Akwa Ibom Government for the support given to the Nigeria Prisons Service and appealed for more.
In the same vein, he thanked other sister security agencies for their cooperation and sought for more to enable the service to recaptured the fleeing inmates, to ensure peace and tranquility in the state.
