Three of the inmates who escaped within the jailbreak of two prisons in Edo after the ENDSARS protests turned violent are rearrested for robbery.
The suspects, Osamuyi Omoregbe, Raymond Aimua and Omon Ayo, were among 34 suspects police paraded for heist , kidnapping and cultism.
Operatives of the Edo state police command has rearrested three inmates who escaped from the 2 correctional centres in Edo following the attack on the centres by hoodlums during the #EndSARS protest over alleged heist .
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The state commissioner Johnson Kokumon said the three escapees would be charged for escaping detention also because the fresh crime committed.
He explained that the criminal elements now pretend to be taxi drivers and dispossess passengers of belongings within the process of conveying them to their destinations.
Kokumon said it’s worrisome that about 2,000 criminal inmates escaped from the custodian centres into the town , assuring that the police won’t rest until all are arrested and arm and ammunition carted away are recovered.
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