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Six months after the October 19, 2020 jailbreaks at the Benin and Oko Medium Security Correctional Centres in Benin City, Edo State, over 1,685 inmates are still at large, The Guardian investigations have revealed. The jailbreak was one of the high points of last year’s #EndSARS protests, which were purportedly hijacked by hoodlums. x Before the incident, the two correctional facilities had 1, 993 inmates comprising those convicted to life imprisonment and awaiting-trial inmates. The Correctional Centre in Benin City on the Benin-Sapele Road was built in ...

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… places reward of up to N250, 000 for information leading to rearrest of escapee prisoners Edo State Government has opened a portal for members of the public to submit credible information that could lead to the arrest of fleeing inmates from two Medium Security Correctional Centres (MSCC) in Benin City, the state capital. This is even as it placed a reward of up to N250,000 for information that could lead to the rearrest of escapee prisoners. The State Government urged members of the public with useful information relating to the fleeing inmates to log into the portal: www.edostate.gov.ng...