Nigeria recorded zero jailbreaks in 2023

The Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS, says it recorded zero jailbreak and attacks in all the 253 custodial centres across the country in 2023.

The spokesman, Assistant Controller of Corrections (ACC) Abubakar Umar, made this disclosure in an interview with newsmen on Thursday in Abuja.

Umar said the government had taken comprehensive measures to strengthen the security of the facilities and effectively counteract any potential threats, whether originating from internal or external sources.

According to him, Nigeria had been haunted by alarming happenings of violent jailbreaks and attacks in previous years, adding that a lot of strategies were put in place to prevent the trend across the nation.

He recalled that the management had announced in January 20, that 2023 would be a tough year for perpetrators of jailbreaks across the country as massive personnel and technology for intelligence gathering were deployed to forestall jail attacks.

This, he said were both in terms of infrastructural development in the service for 2023 and security strategies to prevent what happened in 2022.

Recall that an incident occurred on July 5, 2022, involving the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), in which they successfully carried out an attack on the custodial centre in Abuja.