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Inmates
of Kaduna Prisons went on rampage Tuesday morning, allegedly because of
reports that convicted former head of the Christ Praying Assembly,
Reverend King, had been killed.

Mr. King, according to a prison official, was recently transferred to Kaduna from Kirikiri prisons.

The officer, who
asked to remain anonymous, said when Mr. King, who was awaiting a death
sentence, was moved from the jail to another prison in Kaduna, other
inmates thought the free-spending convict had been executed and went on
rampage to protest this.

An unspecified
number of inmates died in the melee as they attempted to flee the
prison. The inmates had set part of the prison on fire and dug part of
the wall, in order to escape, but hundreds of police officers, prison
guards and other security agents were deployed to the scene to curb the
crisis.

Abdul Bola, the
Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Prison Service, Kaduna, also
said order has been restored to the prison, that the inmates have been
returned to their cells and that no one escaped during the disturbance.

A source at the prison added that the prisoners were also not happy
with the poor feeding arrangement at the prison and its overcrowded
cells.