The Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) has confirmed the recapture of five out of 12 inmates who escaped from the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Koton Karfe, Kogi State, following a prison break in the early hours of Monday.

The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) made this known in a statement on Monday.

According to the Acting Controller General of the NCoS, Sylvester Nwakuche, the service is determined to recapture the remaining seven inmates who escaped from the facility.

“The Comptroller General further mentioned that three of the escaped inmates have been apprehended by the Correctional officers while one of the officers in charge of the centre died as a result of torture by the inmates,” the agency said.

Meanwhile, the Minister of Interior Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo has ordered a probe into the incident while describing it as unfortunate.

A statement from the minister’s media aide Babatunde Alao quoted his principal as saying that technology will be deployed to recapture the inmates.

The minister also ordered the acting NCoS Controller-General to visit the facility in Kogi to evaluate the situation and commence a comprehensive audit to unravel the events that led to the incident.

“We are on top of the situation. Our men are on the ground in Kogi, and I have ordered a comprehensive audit of the situation,” he said.