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Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command say they have arrested one of the those inmates who escaped during an attack on the Kuje Correctional Centre.
Crime reports from the command indicated that the escapee,Yakubu AbdulMumuni was nabbed on Monday 11th of July 2022.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi the 28-year-old escapee was arrested following an information received by policemen at Sango Ota divisional headquarters that, the convict was sighted somewhere around Sango-Ota.
He said while acting on the information, the Divisional Police Officer, Sango- Ota division, SP Saleh Dahiru quickly mobilised his men and moved to the area where the convict was apprehended.
Oyeyemi stated that the convict confessed to the Police that he escaped from Kuje Correctional Centre on the 5th of July 2022, it was attacked by bandits.
He said he (Yakubu) further added that he was convicted by Kogi state High Court for offence of Conspiracy and culpable Homicide and sent to Kuje Correctional Centre.
Meanwhile, the state Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole has ordered the State Criminal Investigation Department to facilitate the transfer of the convict to Correctional Centre with immediate effect.