Kogi prison break

Kogi prison break
Part of Boko Haram insurgency
Location	Kogi State, North-central Nigeria
Date	2 November 2014
Attack type	Prison break
Deaths	1
Injured	0
Perpetrators	Boko Haram
No. of participants	Unknown
Defenders	144 prisoners escaped

The Kogi prison break was an attack on Koto-Karffi Federal Medium Security Prisons in Kogi State, in north-central Nigeria by unknown gunmen suspected to be members of the terrorist group, Boko Haram.^[1] The attack occurred on 2 November 2014.^[2] About 144 prisoners escaped from the prison; 1 inmate was shot and killed during the attack.^[3] The escaped prisoners were largely awaiting trial for robbery.^[4] Twelve inmates returned to the prison to serve out their sentences^[5] and about 45 escaped prisoners were recaptured altogether.^[6][7]

Incident

The incident was reported to have occurred on Sunday, 2 November 2014.^[8] The attack was linked with Boko Haram, the Islamic insurgent group operating in northeastern Nigeria.^[9] Alhaji Aminu Sule, the comptroller-general of the Nigerian Prisons Services, claimed that the prison break operation was successful as a result of poor funding of the prisons services^[10] and that the prison cells had remained unchanged since the prison's establishment in 1934.^[11]

See also

• Minna prison break
• Lagos prison break

References