The board of the Nigeria Prisons Service has penned down the names of 23 officers from two prisons in the country for dismissal over alleged complicity in jailbreak incidents involving prison inmates.
The prisons service spokesman, Francis Enobore, has also disclosed that the NPS board would had also identified 11 other officers for suspension as it commenced investigation into jailbreak incident in a third prison facility.
The new Controller-General of Prisons, Ahmed Jaafaru, has vowed to halt the frequent incidence of jailbreaks in prisons facilities across the country.
Enobore, however, said those to be dismissed by the service included three senior officers at Kuje medium-security prison in Abuja, where many high-profile suspects of corruption cases are being kept.
The jailbreak in June involved two men accused of kidnapping, raping and killing a woman.
In July, 13 inmates escaped from Koton Karfe Prison in Kogi State. Six of the fleeing inmates have been re-arrested and returned to the prison.
