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The Nigerian Prisons Service (NIPS) has re-arrested nine of the 144 inmates who escaped during the November 3 attack on Koton Karfe Prison in Kogi state.

Disclosing this to NAN on Tuesday, Adam Omale, controller of prisons in the state, said the prisoners were recaptured in Kogi and neighbouring states.

Omale also said that 22 of the fleeing inmates had willfully returned to the prison,explaining that six of those rearrested were convicts while three were awaiting trial.

Stating that the service was on the trail of 113 inmates still on the run, and that all of them would soon be recaptured, the controller also said that the NIPS headquarters in Abuja, the Department of State Services (DSS) and the police had commenced separate investigations into the incident, and the outcome of the investigations would be made public as soon as it was ready.

While calling for speedy completion of work on the new prison facility under construction in Koton Karfe, and spoke on the need for the establishment of another prison facility at Lokoja to reduce the pressure on the Koton Karfe prison.