15 detainees escape from Nsukka prison

No less than 15 jail detainees serving diverse correctional facility terms Tuesday night, supposedly got away from Nsukka Prisons, in Enugu State scaling through the border wall of the jail under the front of dimness.

A solid source at Nsukka detainment facilities who argued namelessness told Dailynewsvibe that the detainees carefully opened the cell without the learning of the jailers on night obligation and scaled through the edge wall of the jail.

Dailynewsvibe accumulated that before the corrections officers on night obligation could watch round the jail yard and check the cells, no less than 15 detainees were at that point gone.

Nsukka penitentiaries was intended to contain 180 detainees yet it purportedly housed around 500 detainees crushed in conservative cells of the jail yard.

At the point when reached on his cellular telephone, the officer responsible for Nsukka detainment facilities, Mr Okonkwo Lawrence Okonkwo affirmed the escape however declined to give subtle elements and the quantity of prisoners that got away.

Okonkwo noticed that he was not in a position to offer points of interest of the correctional facility reprieve and the quantity of detainees that evaded, taking note of that he was hanging on for the landing of the state Controller, Mr Isaiah Amariri to give the circumstance report of the escape.

"The state Controller , Mr Amariri would brief the press and the general population on the quantity of prisoners that got away and the endeavors to re-capture the escapees in the not very removed time."

However unsubstantiated reports said that two of the escapees were re-captured. Dailynewsvibe accumulated that Nsukka penitentiaries authorities were located yesterday in different parts of Nsukka town and its environs with an end goal to get data over escaping detainees.