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The Ogun prison break was an attack on the Sagamu minimum prison in the southwestern Nigerian city of
Ogun State Ogun State is a state in southwestern Nigeria. Created on 3 February 1976 from the former Western State. Ogun State borders Lagos State to the south, Oyo State and Osun State to the north, Ondo State to the east, and the Republic of Benin to the ...
by Prisoners. The attack occurred on 4 January 2013. About 20 prisoners escaped from the prison leaving several prison officials and prisoners seriously injured with no deaths recorded. About 4 escaped convicts were rearrested by the Armed Squad of the
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. It was reported that one escaped convict returned to the prison voluntarily to serve out his short sentence


Incident

The incident was reported to have occurred on 4 January 2013 at around 3 am. Zakari Ibrahim, the Comptroller General of the
Nigerian Prisons Services The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), formerly known as Nigerian Prison Service (NPS), is a government agency of Nigeria which operates prisons. The agency is headquartered in Abuja, and it is under the supervision of the Ministry of the Int ...
who confirm the attack claimed that the cause of the prison break was unclear. The incident resulted in the removal of Omobitan, the officer-in-charge of the facility from office for negligence of duty.


See also

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Lagos prison break The Lagos Prison Break occurred on October 10, 2014 when five persons (Ayodeji Bello, 32, Saibu Abdul Razak, 21, Adebayo Dada, 24, Desmond Issac 35 and Peter Kingsley, 29) escaped from the Kirikiri Medium Prison. Incident The incident was report ...
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Prison breaks in Nigeria A prison break is an unlawful act under Nigerian law, of a prisoner forcing their way out of a prison. It can also be described as attacks on the Nigerian Prisons Services by terrorists such as Boko Haram and armed robbers in which many prison ...
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Edo prison break The Edo prison break was an attack on the federal prison at Oko in Benin City, the capital of Edo State in southern Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya official ...


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