Ekiti: Prison Service recaptures 193 escapees

The Nigerian Prisons Service, NPS, yesterday
said that 193 inmates who escaped from the
Ado-Ekiti prison on Sunday have been
recaptured.
With 435 prisoners at the facility at the time
of the attack, it means 242 prisoners are still
on the run.
Spokesperson of the Prison Service, Ope
Fatinikun, who disclosed this in Abuja
yesterday, appealed to Nigerians, especially
nearby communities and neighbouring states
of Ekiti, Ondo, Edo, Osun, Kogi and Kwara to
be vigilant and watch out for suspicious
individuals and report them to the nearest
prison or police station.
Meanwhile, the All Pro- FEMI OYEWESO
ABEOKUTA Scores of retired teachers
yesterday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital
called on National Pension Commission,
PENCOM, to mandate their Pension Fund
Administrator, PFA, IBTC Pensions, to release
their pensions without further delay. The
teachers, who addressed journalists
yesterday at Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT,
Kuto, Abeokuta, also called on the federal
government and appropriate authorities to
intervene on the matter before it is too late.
The retirees were mainly the three batches of
teachers from the Obafemi Owode Local
Government who left service between July
2012, 2013 and 2014 respectively and had
duly completed necessary documentations.
They alleged that since their retirement from
service in 2012, IBTC Pension had refused to
pay them their entitlement whereas their
colleagues under other PFAs in the same
state had been paid their contributory
pensions in full. The spokesperson of the over
50 teachers, Reverend Olawale Sanyaolu, said
government during the introduction of their
PFA in 2008 had promised that their
contributory pension would be paid at the
point of disengagement. The teachers,
however, lamented that they had been
subjected to series of maltreatment and
harrowing experience since their first, second
and third batches of teachers retired.
gressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State and
the state government yesterday disagreed
over the whereabouts of the inmates.
The APC, which accused Governor Ayodele
Fayose of complicity in the attack whereby no
fewer than 274 inmates are still missing,
alleged that some of the inmates were
sighted at the Government House.
The APC State Publicity Secretary, Taiwo
Olatunbosun, said in a statement in Ado-Ekiti
that "the sighting of four of the escaped
prisoners in the Government House
confirmed the earlier suspicion that the
incident was an orchestrated plan to free
criminals friendly with the government to
unleash them on the opponents as suspicion
of alleged killer squad in Ekiti State grew.
"Today, Ekiti people have information that
four of the escapees, including a notorious
criminal and serial rapist that participated in
attacking Fayose's opponents during his first
stint, are being lodged in the chalets behind
the Presidential Lodge in the Government
House," Olatubosun said.
According to him, the unfolding drama
confirms APC outcry that a killer squad is
being raised for attacks on opponents.
But Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr
Idowu Adelusi, described the APC allegation
as funny and an attempt to divert Ekiti
people's attention from the evil deed of the
opposition party. Rather he said, "Some of
the escapee inmates are in APC custody".
Adelusi said: "They (APC) want to divert the
attention of the people. But Ekiti people know
that APC is behind the attack on the prison.
The APC collaborated with some people inside
the prison who they had already
compromised."
The governor's spokesperson said Fayose had
during his visit to the prison after the attack
shed light on how the APC connived with
some people at the prison to carry out the
attack.
The Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro,
had said in Lagos on Tuesday that 320 of the
446 inmates of the prison escaped during the
attack.
The police in the state, which said manhunt
was ongoing, said on Tuesday the 67 of the
escapee inmates had been re-arrested apart
from those who returned to the prison on
their own.
Posted By David Aniemeka