More than 100 inmates of the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Suleja, Niger state, have escaped from the facility after parts of it was destroyed during a rainstorm on Wednesday night.
Spokesman of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command of the Nigeria Correctional Service NCoS, Adamu Duza made this known in a statement on Thursday morning.
According to him, the heavy downpour that lasted for several hours “wreaked havoc on the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Suleja, Niger state, as well as surrounding buildings, destroying part of the custodial facility, including its perimeter fence, giving way to the escape of a total of 118 inmates of the facility”.
