Officials and inmates were this morning embroiled in arguments over what caused the attempt by some inmates to foment trouble and escape from the Kano Central Prison, Kurmawa, which was foiled yesterday evening.
The incident occurred, TNG gathered, when some “condemned inmates” numbering about 150 staged a protest that officials should allow them to consume illicit drugs (marijuana) and use other items such as telephone handsets smuggled into the facility by yet to be identified persons.
Other sources, however, claimed that the inmates were protesting poor quality of food they were served for iftar (Muslim breaking of fast), despite a befitting arrangement allegedly put in place by a popular philantropist.
Reacting on the incident, the Public Relations Officer, Kano State Correctional Centre, DSC Musbahu Lawal Kofar Nasarawa, said the mayhem was not as a result of the food but the inmates want officials to allow them to consume illicit drugs (marijuana) and use telephone handsets smuggled into the facility by yet to be identified persons.
Musbahu said the Command’s Controller, Suleiman T. Suleiman has set up a committee to investigate how the illicit items (wee-wee and handset) were smuggled into the facility. According to him, “was it through the food they bring into the facility that the items were smuggled into the facility or how? So the Committee were to investigate who and how.
Whether it’s those who bring in food or the staffs who smuggle in the illicit items. “So they stage a protest that the items be returned to them which is violates the law. “But as we speak, normalcy has since returned back in the facility,” Musbahu stated.
Meanwhile, it was gathered that it took the intervention of security personnel to foil the jail break and restore normalcy in the facility.