Prison Break: Immigration On High Alert Over Invasion of Ghana Border by 1,800 Nigerian Prisoners

Ghana’s borders is on alert over a prison break in Nigeria. Ghana Immigration officials have been ordered to ensure the criminals don’t get to Ghana.

About 1800 prisoners escaped jail at Owerri Prison after gunmen attacked with explosives The Ghana Immigration Service has alerted customs officials of a possible invasion of Ghana’s borders by about 1800 Nigerian prisoners who broke jail over the weekend.

Media reports from Nigeria indicates that the jail break happened when gunmen attacked the Owerri Prison with explosives and later setting the police station ablaze. Efforts are being made by the Owerri Police to re-arrest these prisoners. In the meantime, the Ghana Immigration is on alert over a possible entry by these prisoners to Ghana.

“ I am directed to bring the incident to the attention of all controls. You are to inform officers and men under your command to take note and be on high security alert to prevent the entry of these criminal escapees to Ghana,” the Comptroller-General of the Ghana Immigration Service, Laud Affrifah, stated in a wireless message.

However in another report The Lagos State Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has ordered the immediate dismantling of all illegal roadblocks by police teams from the command on the Lagos-Badagry expressway.