Three inmates of the Ogun State Correctional Centre in Ijebu-Ode allegedly escaped from the facility after scaling the heavily padded fence.
It was learnt the inmates, Hammed Adeboyejo convicted for robbery and murder, Fatai Akande also convicted for murder, and Aliu Oguntona, sentenced for sexual offences, escaped about three days ago.
A statement from the Ijebu-Mushin Area Command of So-Safe Corps, which confirmed this, reads;
“The report reaching us is that three prisoners escaped from the Ijebu-Ode Correctional Center they are Hammed Adeboyejo who was convicted of murder/armed robbery; Fatai Taiwo Akande from Ijebu-Igbo was sentenced for murder while Oguntona Aliu was convicted of Sexual Offence. Should any of them be sighted, please contact the office of So-Safe Corps Command closer to you, the Police and any other Security agency.”
But the So-Safe Corps Commander, Soji Ganzallo, said he knew nothing about the purported jail break and should therefore be dismissed.
“I don’t know anything about it, so dismiss it,” Ganzallo said.
Spokesperson of the State Command of the Correctional Service, Victor Oyeleke also confirmed the jail break, saying it happened about 3m Saturday morning.
He said,
“Yes, it is confirmed, it happened Saturday morning around 3am. A search party to bring the three of them back has been raised.
“We have their biometrics and we have contacts of their families. We are working together with other sister agencies and in good time they will be brought back.”