By Busari Kabirat
A prisoner known as Jacob Alonge, who escaped from the Benin Correctional Centre during the 2020 #EndSARS protest, has been re-arrested by the Edo State Police Command.
This was made known to newsmen in Benin City by the Commissioner of Police, CP Funsho Adegboye, said: the inmate was sentenced to 21 years imprisonment by the Edo High Court for raping his own daughter, Gift Alonge.
“While the case is ongoing in court, he threatened that the case would have no end and true to his threat, his daughter and others who were coming to testify in court 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, made the convict known as a dangerous human being, adding that he is not supposed to be allowed to live in the midst of human beings.
In accordance with him, the police got credible intelligence that the convict, a serial rapist, was sighted at Ososo community in Akoko-Edo local government of the state.
CP Adegboye disclosed that
the operatives of the Command stormed the community to arrest the inmate but some people in community resisted his arrest but the operatives overpowered those that resisted the arrest of the convict and he was re-arrested and brought to the Command.
