The assistant inspector general of police (AIG) in charge of zone five Benin city Sholla David has confirmed the viral social media reports about the escape of suspects in custody of the criminal investigation department CID of Edo state command.
The AIG who was at the command headquarters on Monday expressed the resolve of the IG of police Muhammed Adamu to get to the root of what led to the incident. Edo citizens woke up on Saturday with the viral publication of the escape of one hundred prisoners from the custody of the state criminal investigation department CID.
This created fears on the people who had barely recovered from the prison break that saw almost two thousand inmates escape from two correctional facilities in the state.
The Police is also worried about this which prompted the visit of the AIG zone five Sholla David on the order of the IG of police to the state command to assess the scene and he confirmed that ten suspects escaped from the CID facility as against one hundred that was reported on the social media.
The AIG visibly angry about the escape of the suspects who were under lock and key and its consequences while they were free, is however worried about how the suspects could have escaped from a post manned by ten policemen at 2.45am. This is even as the police public relations officer Chidi Nwabuzor confirmed the rearrest of two of the suspects now in their custody.
The AIG while assuring continued commitment to protecting life and property of law-abiding citizens of Edo state and the zone, says the police is in pursuit of the fleeing eight suspects who were arrested for various crimes including Murder, Cultism and Robbery.
