Kuje Jailbreak: How 28-Year-Old Fleeing Inmate Was Captured In Ogun | READ DETAILS
Operatives of Ogun state police command on Monday, July 11, re-arrested a 28-year-old Kuje Correctional Center escapee, one Yakubu AbdulMumuni.
The suspect who was convicted for conspiracy and culpable homicide in Kogi State and sent to Kuje prison, Abuja was arrested in Sango-Ota, in the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the State.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement on Wednesday, July 13 said;
“the escapee, 28year old Yakubu AbdulMumuni was arrested following information received by policemen at Sango-Ota divisional headquarters that, the convict was sighted somewhere around Sango Ota.
“Upon the information, the DPO Sango-Ota division, SP Saleh Dahiru quickly mobilized his men and moved to the area where the convict was apprehended.
“He confessed to the Police that he escaped from Kuje Correctional Center on the 5th of July 2022, when the Center was attacked by bandits.
“He stated further that he was convicted by Kogi state High Court for offence of Conspiracy and culpable Homicide and sent to Kuje Correctional Center.”
The PPRO, however, said the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole has ordered the State Criminal Investigation Department to facilitate the transfer of the convict to Correctional Center with immediate effect.
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