#EndSARS Escapee Convicted Of Raping Daughter Rearrested

The Edo State Police Command has re-arrested Jacob Alonge, a 58-year-old prisoner who escaped from the Benin Correctional Centre during the 2020 #EndSARS protest in the state.

GWG.ng reports that the Commissioner of Police, CP Funsho Adegboye, disclosed this to newsmen in Benin City.

According to Adegboye, the inmate had been sentenced to 21 years in prison by the Edo High Court for raping his daughter, Gift Alonge.

According to him, “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 will be taken to where he belongs.”

Adegboye, who described the convict as a dangerous human being, added that he was not fit to live with human beings.

He said the convict, who was serving a jail term, escaped during the #EndSARS jailbreak in the two custodial centres in Benin.

According to 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.

The Commissioner of Police revealed that Command operatives conducted an operation to apprehend the inmate in the community, but encountered resistance from certain individuals.

Despite this opposition, the operatives managed to overcome the resistance and successfully re-arrested the convict, bringing him back to the Command.

While acknowledging the successful outcome, the commissioner appealed to community members not to harbor criminals, emphasizing that such individuals may pose a threat to them in the future.

He highlighted the transient nature of criminal allegiances, emphasizing that criminals do not have permanent alliances or friendships.

In an interview with newsmen, the convict said he escaped because everyone was escaping after the prison was forced open during the #EndSARS protest.

“I escaped to my village. I was called that police are in my house and are looking for me, so I went to meet them and I was arrested,” he stated.

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