Kuje Custodial Centre: Police recapture another escaped inmate in Minna

In a continued effort to recapture escaped inmates from Kuje Custodial Centre during the jail break, police operatives attached to Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) of Niger State Command have arrested one John Ijamu aged 42yrs ‘m’ of Apa Local Government Area, Benue State but residing along Mandela road, Minna.

According to the State Police Public Relations Officer DSP Wasiu Abiodun, the inmate was arrested in his residence in Minna on Sunday and during interrogation; he confessed that he escaped from the custodial facility during the attack along with other inmates while he escaped further to Lapai area where he stayed in a Mosque for about two weeks before he arrived Minna on 28/07/2022.

Abiodun said the suspect claimed that he was arrested in Abuja since the year 2020 for the offence of criminal conspiracy, armed robbery and receiving stolen property and he was remanded in the facility for the above mentioned offence he committed.

However, the Commissioner of Police Niger State Command, CP Monday Bala Kuryas, commended the effort of the police operatives and directed immediate transfer of the inmate to the custodial centre for further necessary action.

Meanwhile, members of the public are equally admonished to be more vigilant in their various localities and avoid habouring a stranger to be roaming about within the environment as criminal intentions may not be quickly known in order to prevent any ugly incident.