On Monday, the Kuje prison where popular inmates like Henry Okah and Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) are kept came under fire.
Heavy gunfire was reported there while it was claimed that a jail break attempt was arrested.
The riot is one of several incidents in prisons across the country this year.
Eleven days earlier, a similar incident in Abakaliki Prison, Ebonyi State led to the death of six inmates and injuries to four prison warders.
Monday’s riot also occurred two months after two inmates, standing trial for culpable homicide, escaped from the Kuje Prison on June 25. The fleeing inmates have yet to be re-arrested.
In June, the prisons service dismissed a female prison officer for smuggling alcoholic drinks into the Kirikiri prison in Lagos.
About two weeks ago, the Federal Government dismissed 23 prison officers for alleged complicity in jailbreaks at the Kuje Medium Security Prison, Abuja, and the Koton-Karfe Prisons, Kogi State.
The Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prison Services Board, at its emergency meeting held on August 11, 2016, approved the dismissal of three senior prison officers serving in Kuje Prison and three other senior officers serving in Koton-Karfe Prison for their complicity in the escape of prisoners from the respective prisons.
In addition, the Controller-General of Prisons, Ahmed Ja’afaru, had also approved the dismissal of seven junior prison officers serving in Kuje Prison and 10 other junior staff serving in Koton Karfe prison, who were also implicated in the jailbreaks.
