Prison Break Season 200: ‘How we broke out of Shagamu prison’

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Ejike Nkennachor is a 30-year-old robbery suspect. He shocked police detectives in Lagos when he narrated how he masterminded a prison break at the Maximum Prisons, Shagamu, Ogun State, to form a notorious robbery gang that specialises in snatching exotic cars.

“When I was arrested in 2008 at the state Criminal Investigations Department, Panti, Yaba, Lagos for car snatching, I was charged to court but members of my family paid money to a lawyer that secured my release.

I spent only four months at the Ikoyi prison and my case was discharged for want of evidence. After my release, I went back to car snatching because I know my family will always come for me. I did it for some time and I snatched several exotic cars including a Mercedes Benz car that was valued around N12 million but I sold it for N800,000 to my receiver at Asaba, Delta State.

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“Then, I avoided Lagos State and I and members of my gang, were operating in Ogun State. Unfortunately for me, I was arrested by Ogun State special anti-robbery squad, SARS, after I stole a car. They caught me driving the stolen car at Shagamu and they intercepted it and later sent me to prison. My stay at the prison was quite very long and the judiciary in the state did not help matters.

Luckily, there was this fight between members of Black Axe confraternity and the Eye confraternity and a lot of them were arrested and remanded in the same cell with me at Shagamu Prison. At that time, I was terribly frustrated.

The cult boys told me that they don’t want to spend the New Year in the prison. I told them not to worry that I had a plan. “On the eve of the New Year, members of my cell and those from another cell started a protest and we fought the warders on duty at the prison.

“We dug a big hole on the prison wall and we escaped from there. Some of us were killed while trying to escape but I succeeded and ran to Ikorodu. I contacted my family members and informed them about my escape. They begged me to come back to my home town at Asaba and I refused. I contacted Samuel and informed him that I was out of prison and he was very happy.