{"id":63290,"date":"2025-03-25T11:52:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T11:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63290"},"modified":"2025-03-25T11:52:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T11:52:23","slug":"9-fugitives-nabbed-as-kogi-probes-suspicious-jailbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/25\/9-fugitives-nabbed-as-kogi-probes-suspicious-jailbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Fugitives Nabbed as Kogi Probes Suspicious Jailbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nine of the 12 inmates who escaped from the Federal Correctional Centre in Kotonkarfe, Kogi State, have been rearrested as security agencies intensify the hunt for the remaining fugitives.<\/p>\n<p>The early Sunday morning jailbreak on March 23, 2025, has sparked suspicions of internal compromise, prompting a full-scale investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Kogi State Commissioner for Information, Kingsley Fanwo, dismissed the escape as suspicious, insisting that the jailbreak theory must be scrutinized.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo has tasked the State Security Adviser with collaborating with correctional officials and security agencies to prevent future breaches.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has ordered an audit of the facility and a thorough probe into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>He directed the Acting Controller-General of the Nigerian Correctional Service to ensure the swift recapture of the fleeing inmates.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have reassured residents that security is being reinforced across the state to prevent further threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo Nine of the 12 inmates who escaped from the Federal Correctional Centre in Kotonkarfe, Kogi State, have been rearrested as security agencies intensify the hunt for the remaining fugitives. The early Sunday morning jailbreak on March 23, 2025, has sparked suspicions of internal compromise, prompting a full-scale investigation. Kogi State Commissioner for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63292,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63290\/revisions\/63292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}