End SARS: Protesters Break Benin Prisons, Free Prisoners
Most prisoners escaped on Monday morning in Benin as hoodlums attacked a prison along Sapele Road in the City.
The Nigerian Correctional Centre facility, otherwise known as prison, located at Reservation Road Junction on Sapele Road, Benin City, on Monday suffered a prison break as the #EndSARS protesters locked down the ancient city.
The protesters, after gaining entrance into the prison through the fence freed inmates in the prisons along Benin Sapele Road, near Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ office.
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It was reported that thieves and gunmen took the ongoing protesters as a means to extort passers-by off their phones and valuables in various self mounted checkpoints in Benin.
The governor and police chiefs in Edo State are yet to make a statement on the ongoing Rouge protests.
More to follow....