Imo jail break: Lagos Police rearrest fleeing inmate for stealing SIM card

By Tobi Adetunji

The Lagos State Police Command has rearrested one Oyemachi Maduabuchi, who escaped from the Owerri Correctional Centres, Imo State, after the jail break that occurred in April, 2021

The suspect, who fled Owerri that same day, 5th April, 2021, moved to his village, Fegge in Onitsha, Anambra State, to meet his mother who later linked him up with his elder sister, Amarachi Maduabuchi,  of Customs Bus Stop Ijegun Lagos.

The sister thereafter invited him to Lagos on 19th April, 2021.

In a signed statement by the Lagos State Public Relations Officer CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, made available to Nigerian NewsDirect, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police CP Hakeem Odumosu, said “the suspect was kept in the sister’s house where she used to lead him to church for special deliverance service.”

According to the Police boss, “In the process, after the night vigil on 20th April, 2021, at Bride Assembly Church, Ijesha Area of Lagos State, the suspect allegedly stole the SIM and the memory cards of a member  of the church before he was eventually arrested and the stolen items recovered from him.”

“In the course of Police investigation, it was revealed that the suspect has been standing trial since 2009 for Conspiracy, Armed Robbery and Arson before Justice Nna Amadi of Ngbidi High Court 1, at Ngbidi in Imo State.”

He has directed that the suspect should be handed over to the Nigerian Correctional Service for further investigation and necessary action having confessed to the crime.

Odumosu,  therefore assured the general public that the command will not relent on its efforts in making the state safe and peaceful for all and sundry to live in, as all hands are on deck to effectively police Lagos State.