The Kogi prison break was an attack on Koto-Karffi Federal Medium Security Prisons in

Kogi State Kogi State is a States of Nigeria, state in the North Central Nigeria, North Central region of Nigeria, bordered to the west by the states of Ekiti State, Ekiti and Kwara State, Kwara, to the north by the Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria, Fe ...

, in north-central

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by unknown gunmen suspected to be members of the terrorist group,

Boko Haram Boko Haram, officially known as Jama'at Ahl al-Sunna li al-Da'wa wa al-Jihad (), is a self-proclaimed jihadist militant group based in northeastern Nigeria and also active in Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon, and Mali. In 2016, the group spli ...

. The attack occurred on 2 November 2014. About 144 prisoners escaped from the prison; 1 inmate was shot and killed during the attack. The escaped prisoners were largely awaiting trial for

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. Twelve

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returned to the prison to serve out their sentences and about 45 escaped prisoners were recaptured altogether.

Incident

The incident was reported to have occurred on Sunday, 2 November 2014. The attack was linked with

, the Islamic insurgent group operating in northeastern

. Alhaji Aminu Sule, the comptroller-general of the

Nigerian Prisons Services The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), formerly known as Nigerian Prison Service (NPS), is a government agency of Nigeria which operates prisons. The agency is headquartered in Abuja, and it is under the supervision of the Ministry of the Int ...

, claimed that the prison break operation was successful as a result of poor funding of the prisons services and that the prison cells had remained unchanged since the prison's establishment in 1934.

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Incident

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