Breaking: Security agents foil jailbreak in Bayelsa State

An attempted jailbreak was foiled yesterday , when inmates of Okaka Prison in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State detonated an improvised explosive device .

Prison sources stated that about six inmates including the mastermind behind the explosion,  Victor Tekekuma were rearrested,  while several others reportedly gained freedom.

Africa Update gathered that Tekekuma, has been awaiting trial for murder and kidnapping since 2013.

Reacting to the incident, the  Controller of the Nigerian Prisons Service in the state, Victor Chiabua,  said that the incident occurred at about 9:02 p.m. on Sunday, “An investigation into the dastardly act revealed that the mastermind of the attempted escape got an improvised explosive device (IED) through one of his visitors. The IED was concealed in a Blue Band Margarine Butter pack. They put the device inside cellophane and covered it with margarine to make it look as if it was butter.

“There was a very loud bang in the prison yard which attracted the attention of the security operatives on duty. The prompt response by the Police, Department of State Services, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and armed squad of the Prison Service actually aborted what could have been a jailbreak.

”The response was immediate, as the prison’s armed squad with other security officers on duty advanced to the scene of explosion and the about-to-flee inmates were arrested and kept in separate cells.