The Federal Government has again expressed its readiness to use maximum force to resist any jailbreak attempt at the Custodial Centres across the country.
This riot act followed the botched attempt by some unruly inmates at the Ile-Ife Custodial Centre in which four inmates were killed.
It said as the last organ of government in the line of justice administration in Nigeria, the Nigerian Correctional Service has the mandate to ensure that crime suspects and hardened criminals are not wrongly released into the society
The Controller General of Custodian centre, HALIRU NABABA who disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja also commended the gallantry of the officers and men of Ile-Ife Custodial Centre for their professionalism in containing the attempted jailbreak in the Centre.
He charged the officers of the Command not to relent in ensuring that peace and calm in all custodial centres in the state are not compromised.
