A 58-year-old convict, Jacob Alonge, who escaped from the Benin Correctional Centre during the 2020 #EndSARS protest has been rearrested.
This was contained in the statement made by the Edo State Commissioner of Police, CP Funsho Adegboye. The CP was addressing newsmen in Benin City, the Edo State Capital.
According to Adegboye, the inmate was sentenced to 21 years imprisonment by the Edo High Court for raping his own daughter, Gift Alonge.
According to the CP, “While the case was ongoing in court, he threatened that the case would have no end. And true to his threat, his daughter and others who were testifying in court against him, died mysteriously. But he was convicted.
“After escaping from the prison during the 2020 #EndSARS protest, he was not re-arrested. But nemesis has caught up with him and he has been re-arrested and would be taken to where he belong.”
Adegboye, however, described the convict as a dangerous human being. He added that Alonge is not fit to live with human beings.
The Commissioner said, “The convict, who was serving a jail term, escaped during the #EndSARS jail break in the two custodial centres in Benin.
According to him, “The police got credible intelligence that the convict, a serial rapist, was sighted at Ososo community in Akoko-Edo LGA of the State.
The CP disclosed that the operatives of the Command stormed the Community to arrest the inmate. But some unscrupulous elements in the Community resisted his arrest.
Adegboye, however, added that the operatives overpowered those that resisted the arrest of the convict. He pointed that convict was after all re-arrested and brought to the Command.
The Commissioner appealed to members of the Community not to shield criminals. He warned that they may be their victims tomorrow. He pointed that criminal don’t have permanent friends.
In an interview with newsmen, the convict confirmed the development. He, however, said he escaped because everyone was escaping after the prison was forced open during the #EndSARS protest.
“I escaped to my village. I was called and told that police are in my house and are looking for me. So, I went to meet them and I was arrested,” Alonge stated.
source: Daily Post
