A brave warder on Thursday has arrested two inmates who wanted to escape from Kirikiri Maximum Prison, Apapa, Lagos.
The inmates were said to have used a long rope to climb the high fence of the prison and used same to come down at the other side adjacent to a swamp from where they took off for escape.

Our source said some warders were watching the inmates as they were escaping through the swamp until a brave one among them identified simply as Baba Egun pulled his trousers and went after them.
Baba Egun was alleged to have held one while the other on seeing that the other warders had blocked his colleague surrendered himself for arrest.

The two inmates were alleged to have received the beatings of their lives for having the effrontery to attempt to escape.
Saturday Sun gathered that some years back, six inmates used their blankets to climb the fence of the same prison.
Five succeeded in escaping while the fat one among them could not as he fell like a log of wood.
Public Relations Officer of Nigeria Prisons Service, Lagos State Command, Mr. Ope Fatinikun, told Saturday Sun that it was just a foiled attempt.

Fatinikun said for the past two and half years the command has not recorded any jailbreak. The two inmates whose names he did not mention attempted to escape through the swamp but the warders thwarted their efforts.
He disclosed that the command would be celebrating the two and half years of no-jailbreak on December 3, this year.


http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2008/nov/29/national-29-11-2008-003.htm