22 inmates escape from Sapele remand home
22 inmates including 17-year-old Silas Anidi, who slit the throat of an 11-year-old girl for rituals in 2015, have escaped from the Ministry of Women Affairs and Development Remand Home in Sapele.
According to Vanguard reports, the inmates who are between the ages 14 to 17, escaped from the remand home on the 30th of July and the 2nd of August. The inmates are being held for committing offences such as rape, robbery, murder and burglary.
The incident of the escape of the inmates has been kept away from the public for a while before it is now being brought into the open recently.
A staff working in the remand home termed the escape of the inmates as a carefully orchestrated plot.
The staff who spoke on condition of anonymity narrating the occurrence to Vanguard said: “The routine has always been to open the door of the home for the minors every morning for their daily chores, while two or three of them go to prepare their meal but the female correction officer, Mrs Esther Micah, somehow took the keys to church and did not return until 11:30 am.”
“Upon her return, hungry and probably angered by her actions, 11 of them attacked her and fled through the back fence of the home and of course with only three staff on duty, there was little, they could do.”
“Though three of the escaped inmates were arrested on the same day by members of the vigilante in the area along Sapele/Warri road and brought back to the home, two other inmates escaped the next day when the same correction officer went to open the door for them to have their bath.
Three days later, 12 other inmates plotted their getaway when they broke the lock to their hall with an iron bar and escaped through the back of the home.”
DSP Andrew Aniamaka, The Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, confirmed the incident, he said three of the staff is being investigated and they will be charged for negligence of duty.
