Target Sagamu minimum Prison Non-fatal injuries at least 1 No. of participants 20 Date 4 January 2013 Total number of deaths 0 | Attack type Prison break Perpetrators prisoners Defenders 4 Location Ogun State, Nigeria | |
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The Ogun prison break was an attack on the Sagamu minimum prison in the southwestern Nigerian city of Ogun State by the prisoners. The attack occurred on 4 January 2013. About 20 prisoners escaped from the prison leaving several prison officials and prisoners seriously injured with no death recorded. About 4 escaped convicts were rearrested by the Armed Squad of the Prison Service. It was reported that one escaped convict returned to the prison voluntarily to serve out his short sentence
Incident
The incident was reported to have occurred on 4 January 2013 at around 3 am in the morning. Zakari Ibrahim, the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Prisons Services who confirm the attack claimed that the cause of the prison break was unclear. The incident resulted in the remover of Omobitan, the officer-in-charge of the facility from office for negligence of duty.