The police in Imo State, South-east Nigeria, have refuted a report of a prison break in the state.
Henry Okoye, the police spokesperson in Imo State, announced this in a statement on Thursday.
A report surfaced on social media earlier on Thursday suggesting that some suspected herders attacked the Owerri Correctional Facility on 10 April and freed inmates.
But Mr Okoye, a deputy superintendent of police, said the report was “completely false.”
“There has been no prison break,…
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