The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has promised to recapture all inmates who escaped from the Nigeria Correctional Service NCOS Custodial Centre, Abolongo, Oyo State.
A statement by the Media Adviser to the Minister, Sola Fasure, stated that Aregbesola made the promise while on an inspection visit to the facility in Oyo.
The minister assured Nigerians that the Federal Government would pursue not just those who attacked the facility, but those who escaped lawful custody.
Aregbesola, however, noted that 446 out of 907 escapees had already been re-captured, while 69 remained in the facility.
On the effort to rebuild the damaged portions of the facility, the minister said that he had directed the NCoS to immediately commence remediation work.
Also, the Controller-General of NCoS, Haliru Nababa, noted that so far, the service had successfully prevented internal jailbreaks in all its facilities.
On the instruction given by the minister to immediately commence remediation work on the facility, Nababa said that work had begun in earnest already.
