The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola has sought the help of the National Identification Management Commission (NIMC) and the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) in identifying and recapturing the fleeing inmates from the Kuje Correctional Service.
Aregbesola made this plea while reacting to questions from State House correspondents on Thursday.
Aregbesola stated that the ministry has made efforts by ensuring that all inmates across its facilities are captured biometrically, and is still collaborating with other agencies to recapture the inmates.
He said, “As of today there is no single inmate of our facility that is not captured biometrically, and that is the best we can do. We are still working on DNA which is another way of identifying them.
“We have met with all agencies and institutions that can use the biometrics to trail and help us arrest them. They are doing their best but the most effective agency in capturing those that escaped from the facility is still the police force and they are doing wonderfully well.
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“The technology that will help us get the inmates is not as effective as we expect, but we can only tell the people that they can only run, they cannot hide because they cannot change their biometrics, whenever they come out they will be exposed and therefore arrested if they have not died.
“None of the inmates in our facilities is without biometrics and we have begged other agencies to help us. NIMC should help us, NCC should help us, they are the service providers. If you have your biometrics, you are exposed.
“So, it is our collective efforts, but if we are all committed to it, we will get them back. But all I can say is that they can only run but they cannot hide.”
