FOLASHADE KEHINDE
AN inmate who escaped from Owerri Correctional Center, in Imo State, has been re-arrested in Lagos.
The fleeing inmate, identified as Oyemachi Maduabuchi, was reportedly re-arrested by the Lagos State Police Command, on April 23, 2021, after allegedly stealing sim and memory cards.
He was said to have escaped during the jailbreak that occurred on April 5, 2021, in Owerri.
The suspect reportedly fled Owerri the same day he escaped and moved to his village, Fegge, in Onitsha, Anambra State.
There, he was said to have met his mother who later linked him up with his elder sister, Amarachi Maduabuchi, of Customs Bus Stop, Ijegun Lagos, who thereafter invited him to Lagos on April 19, 2021.
While in his sister’s house, he was being led to church for special deliverance service.
The Command said, in the process, after a vigil on April 20, 2021, at Bride Assembly Church, Ijesha Area of Lagos State, the suspect allegedly stole the sim and the memory cards of a member (name withheld) of the church before he was eventually arrested and the stolen items recovered from him.
In the course of Police investigation, it was revealed that the suspect had been standing trial since 2009 for Conspiracy, Armed Robbery and Arson before Justice Nna Amadi of Ngbidi High Court 1, at Ngbidi in Imo State.
He has since confessed to the crime while the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has directed that he should be handed over to the Nigerian Correctional Service for further investigations and necessary actions.
