John ODHE, Yenagoa
There are fears of a possible infraction in the Okaka prison, according to a boy whose father is now facing trial and in custody, over his alleged role in the killing of his own two children.
TNN authoritatively gathered that a murder suspect who is currently facing trial while in custody at the correctional service facility situated at Okaka in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state capital, may have been linked to the scare.
Our correspondent learnt that one Mr. Sunday Otasi, a native of Agbobiri community in Yenagoa local government area of the state, who allegedly poisoned his three sons with sniper, out of which two died, is allegedly orchestrating the jailbreak from custody.
It could be recalled that there was total outrage in Bayelsa State in February, 2019, following the arrest of the suspect for allegedly killing his two kids through poisonous substance suspected to be sniper which he administered on the children with the help of one of his relatives identified as Levai who is still at large.
The accused father, Sunday Otasi, was arrested by men of the Bayelsa Police Command personally led by the then Commissioner of Police, Mr. Aminu Saleh over the murder of the two kids identified as Miracle (12), God’stime (10) with another one identified as Success (14) who survived the attempt.
The police commissioner had told reporters that two of the children died after drinking sniper while the third one, who was the eldest among them survived, after he was found by a fisherman having struggled in the bush for two nights.
The surviving son said their father and his brother gave them the sniper to drink, having labelled them as wizards who were responsible for his sickness and woes.
“My father came to take us from our grandmother and told us that we were going to a church in Yenagoa but when we reached the road he and his brother took us to the bush and tied me and my younger brothers and gave us sniper to drink.
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“I managed to come to the road after I used my legs to remove the rope and people saw me and took me to hospital,” the boy had said in tears while recuperating on his hospital bed.
It was gathered that the suspect and his wife had divorced but the three children were living with their grandmother before the incident occurred.
The police commissioner said the suspect had alleged that his sons were wizards who were responsible for his sickness.
Meanwhile, the only surviving son, Success, who is now staying with his mother has raised the alarm of threat to his life, alleging that his father who is facing trial and being held at the Nigerian correctional service, Okaka, is threatening to send his ‘men’ after the boy if he bears witness against him in court.
The young man told our correspondent that when he recently visited Agbobiri community, he was accosted by two men who warned him to stop visiting the community forthwith because his detained father was allegedly plotting with some persons to break the correctional facility, escape and get him (Success) eliminated.
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“Uncle, I want to tell you something, my father is still planning to kill me. His friends came to warn me not to reach our community (Agbobiri) again. They told me that my father said they will break the prison and when he comes out, he will kill me. I am afraid,” the young man confided in our correspondent.
When contacted on the telephone to comment on the development, the Command Public Relations Officer, Nigerian Correctional Service, Bayelsa State Command, Mr. Isari Tombara said “thank you very much for this information. I am going to get back to you.” He, however, did not get back to our correspondent before filing in this report.
Also contacted on the same issue as it bothers on security, the Public Relations Officer of the Bayelsa state Police Command, Mr. Asinim Butswat said “my brother, what can I say on this issue? Somebody who is in the prisons, it is those who work in the prisons that can say something on this issue. It is not within my purview.”
It could be recalled that recently, Abuja, the Nigerian seat of power was shaken to its foundation when unknown gunmen invaded and broke into the Abuja correctional service otherwise called Kuje Prisons and freed hundreds of inmates including detained members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram.
