Kogi prison break

Kogi prison break
Part of Prison escape
Location	Kogi State, North-central Nigeria
Date	02 November 2014
Attack type	Prison break
Deaths	1
Non-fatal injuries	0
Perpetrators	Boko Haram
Number 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 leaving 1 inmate dead at gun shot during the attack.^[3] It was reported that the escaped prisoners were largely awaiting trial for robbery.^[4] Twelve inmates returned to the prison to serve out their short sentence^[5] and about 45 escaped prisoners were recaptured altogether.^[6][7]

Incident

The incident was reported to have occurred on Sunday, 2 November 2014.^[8] The attack was linked with boko haram, the Islamic insurgents in the northeastern Nigeria.^[9] The comptroller-general of the Nigerian Prisons Services, Alhaji Aminu Sule claimed that the prison break operation was successful as a result of poor funding of the Nigerian Prisons Services,^[10] that the prison cells were still the same old building since the prison's establishment in 1934.^[11]

See also

• Minna prison break
• Lagos prison break

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