Kogi prison break | |
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Part of Boko Haram insurgency | |
Location | Kogi State, North-central Nigeria |
Date | 2 November 2014 |
Attack type | Prison break |
Deaths | 1 |
Injured | 0 |
Perpetrators | Boko Haram |
No. of participants | Unknown |
Defenders | 144 prisoners escaped |
The Kogi prison break was an attack on Koto-Karffi Federal Medium Security Prisons in Kogi State, in north-central Nigeria by unknown gunmen suspected to be members of the terrorist group, Boko Haram. [1] The attack occurred on 2 November 2014. [2] About 144 prisoners escaped from the prison; 1 inmate was shot and killed during the attack. [3] The escaped prisoners were largely awaiting trial for robbery. [4] Twelve inmates returned to the prison to serve out their sentences [5] and about 45 escaped prisoners were recaptured altogether. [6] [7]
The incident was reported to have occurred on Sunday, 2 November 2014. [8] The attack was linked with Boko Haram, the Islamic insurgent group operating in northeastern Nigeria. [9] Alhaji Aminu Sule, the comptroller-general of the Nigerian Prisons Services, claimed that the prison break operation was successful as a result of poor funding of the prisons services [10] and that the prison cells had remained unchanged since the prison's establishment in 1934. [11]
Kogi prison break | |
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Part of Boko Haram insurgency | |
Location | Kogi State, North-central Nigeria |
Date | 2 November 2014 |
Attack type | Prison break |
Deaths | 1 |
Injured | 0 |
Perpetrators | Boko Haram |
No. of participants | Unknown |
Defenders | 144 prisoners escaped |
The Kogi prison break was an attack on Koto-Karffi Federal Medium Security Prisons in Kogi State, in north-central Nigeria by unknown gunmen suspected to be members of the terrorist group, Boko Haram. [1] The attack occurred on 2 November 2014. [2] About 144 prisoners escaped from the prison; 1 inmate was shot and killed during the attack. [3] The escaped prisoners were largely awaiting trial for robbery. [4] Twelve inmates returned to the prison to serve out their sentences [5] and about 45 escaped prisoners were recaptured altogether. [6] [7]
The incident was reported to have occurred on Sunday, 2 November 2014. [8] The attack was linked with Boko Haram, the Islamic insurgent group operating in northeastern Nigeria. [9] Alhaji Aminu Sule, the comptroller-general of the Nigerian Prisons Services, claimed that the prison break operation was successful as a result of poor funding of the prisons services [10] and that the prison cells had remained unchanged since the prison's establishment in 1934. [11]