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The Federal Government yesterday suspended the Controller of Prisons, Minna, Niger State, Musa Maiyaki, and some other top officials of the prison.
The suspension, which was ordered by the Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro, followed the recent attack on the prison by gunmen where over 275 inmates were freed and some officials were injured. Moro said the officials were suspended pending the outcome of investigation into the attack on the Medium Security Prison, Minna.
The National Public Relations Officer, Nigerian Prisons Service, Mr Ope Fatinikun, said that Moro gave the order following recommendations of the Controller General of the Nigerian Prisons Service, Dr Peter Ekpendu. Gunmen stormed the facility late on Saturday and freed the inmates while they injured some prison officials. Nobody knows for sure the men behind the attack, but members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect had often times attacked prison facilities in the country.
The attack on Minna Prison came barely a month after gunmen used explosives to blow open the prison in Lokoja, Kogi State. In that attack, the assailants killed one, injured many and set 144 inmates free. Before these two attacks, other prisons had also been attacked.
Those suspended over the latest attack are Maiyaki, the Officer-in-Charge of the prison, ACP Mohammed Ibena and other officers who were on duty on the day of the attack.
Ekpendu has also ordered the immediate transfer of 55 officers and men of the zonal and state headquarters, Minna, to Medium Security Prison Minna and Old Prison Minna to beef up security in the two prisons. On Monday, Fatinikun said that 108 inmates who escaped from Minna prison had been recaptured, while 166 were still being hunted.
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