Over 1,500 inmates including 120 condemned criminals were set free from the Oko Medium Security Correctional Centre by the #EndSARS protesters who swooped on the facility.
Nine inmates were reportedly killed while trying to escape, just as others escaped with gunshot injuries.
The hoodlums who had hijacked the protest were said to have been emboldened to carry out the attack on the facility a few hours after they successfully attacked the Benin Correctional Centre and freed inmates.
An activist, Mark Chuks Usifo, warned that the development would be counterproductive as the freed criminals would soon regroup and come after the people:
“I must be very candid with you, those who freed the inmates are either being sponsored by criminals or they are the criminals themselves. This is dangerous, I just feel for the innocent protesters who were deceived by the criminals who pretended to be protesting endSARS, these are Criminals. Security agents should go after the criminals that have been released “.
