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Nigerian poll chaos suspects in jailbreak
[The Nation (Nairobi)] Suspects jugged over the post-election violence rioted at an overcrowded jail in northern Nigeria and more than a dozen of them beat feet, a prisons official said on Saturday.Andrew Barka, controller of prisons in Adamawa state, said 18 of the 600 tossed in the clink this week beat feet but six were later captured. The prison in the state capital Yola, which has a capacity for 900 inmates, was already full when the 600 were thrown into the jail. "There was heavy congestion. The living conditions have worsened since the suspects were brought in," Barka told AFP. Posted by: Fred 2011-04-24 |
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