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Edo State Chairman, Subcommittee on Decongestion of Correctional Centres, Justice Efe Ikpomwonba, on Tuesday said that the committee

Benin correctional centres’ escapees: Between Aregbesola and Obaseki On By Inwalomhe Donald THE fallout from EndSARS protest in October 2020 has brought about innovation in the management of correctional centres in Nigeria. This follows the assertion of the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, that the police, Edo State Government, correctional services and the public will collaborate to re-arrest the rest of the escapees from Benin correctional centres sooner than later. The minister ann...

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has said the state government will place a bounty for useful information that can lead to the re-arrest of escapees from two correctional facilities in the state. Obaseki disclosed this on Friday when he received members of the 11-man Committee on the re-arrest of the escapee prisoners led by Deputy Controller Corrections (DCC) Usifo Joseph, who were at the Government House, Benin City, to brief the governor on the extent of work done. The governor app...

ADVERTISEMENT The Edo State Government is considering granting pardon to inmates that stayed behind during the jailbreaks in the two Medium Security Correctional Centres in Benin City when the EndSARS project was hijacked by hoodlums. The state governor, Godwin Obaseki, also said the government will place a bounty for useful information that can lead to the re-arrest of escapees. The Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) disclosed after the jailbreaks in Benin on October 18, that 1,993 inmates es...