The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, on Monday, ordered prisons officers to shoot dead anybody who attempts to attack any correctional centre in the country.
The minister gave this order while inspecting the facility at the Agodi
Custodial Centre, Ibadan.
He said the officer must make it impossible for anyone to penetrate the
facility because it is a red zone.
Aregbesola said any attack on any correctional centre is an attack on the
state and such must never be allowed again.
The minister said any attempt to attack correctional centres should be a
suicide attempt and perpetrators must not be allowed to live to tell the
story.
Aregbesola at a recent Ministerial Press Briefing at the Aso Villa, 4,860
inmates of the Nigerian correctional centres have escaped from those
facilities between 2020 and 2021 alone following successful jailbreaks
in Benin, Owerri, and Oyo, among others.
