A few prisoners at the Center were shocked on Monday morning while 10 others supported wounds in the occurrence.
In an announcement, Francis Enobore, representative of the administration, cited Ahmed as depicting the episode as "sad and most disastrous".
He said it is the first of its sort throughout the entire existence of the administration, including that examination is as yet progressing.
"Early today, the Controller General of Corrections, Ja'afaru Ahmed, got with the most profound melancholy, the disastrous demise of five detainees of Ikoyi Medium Security Custodial Center, Lagos, because of an electrical shortcoming in one of the cells. This is to be sure grievous and most doomed," the announcement read.
"The CG, who visited the location of the occurrence with the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, noticed that it was the first run through throughout the entire existence of the NCoS to experience such a calamity.
He, subsequently, requested a quick examination concerning the tragic episode with the end goal of taking essential activities so as to hinder future events.
"As of the hour of the occurrence, Ikoyi Medium Security Custodial Center implicit 1955 for 800 detainees, had a populace of 3,113 with 2,680 as anticipating preliminary people. The specific cell where the catastrophe happened has a limit with regards to 35 yet held 140 prisoners."
Ahmed sympathized with the group of the perished prisoners, while he petitioned God for the snappy recuperation of the harmed unfortunate casualties.
He guaranteed people in general of the security of detainees, including that their welfare will be organized
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