Why Jailbreak Won’t Be Easy In 2023 – NCoS

According to the Nigerian Correctional Service, 2023 will be a difficult year for perpetrators of jailbreaks across the country, with massive personnel and intelligence-gathering technology deployed to prevent jail attacks.

Abubakar Umar, the NCoS National Public Relations Officer, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Abuja.

Umar stated that the NCoS Controller General, Haliru Nababa, had implemented numerous strategies to prevent jailbreaks across the country.

This, he said, was both in terms of service infrastructure development for 2023 and security strategies to avoid what happened in 2022.

According to NAN, the Kuje Custodial Centre was attacked by unknown gunmen in July 2022, releasing many inmates.

Part of the strategies adopted this year is adequate deployment of personnel to custodial facilities.

Another is the deployment of technology because of course, the best war or battle is won through intelligence gathering.

The CG has equally sent some of our officers on training to improve their skills on information gathering and usage.

We are really putting a lot of positive plans to ensure that our facility is well secured from any form of attack this year and beyond, he said.

However, the CG’s spokesman stated that one of the top priorities of his administration will be inmates’ welfare and rehabilitation.

When discussing the issue of jail attacks, Umar stated that the inmates’ welfare was also a priority.

He stated that riots or any internal problems that result in jailbreaks would not occur if inmates are adequately cared for.

So one of the key things that we have put in place again is deploying some of the personnel to our facility to ensure adequate and proper care of the inmates.

A case in point is that in one of our facilities in Gombe State, we have a corp member who is currently teaching inmates on technology building.

They are all happy that their lives are changing even though it is the offence they committed that brought them to prison.

So there are adequate plans for 2023, we do not want to experience jail attacks in our custodial centres and also ensure that inmates are taken care of sufficiently, he said.

NAN