Five militants serving different jail terms Sunday, in a perfectly executed operation, escaped from Port Harcourt Prisons, but two of the escapees - Egbe Gboh and Anthony Akanimo - the police said, have been re-arrested. The Rivers state Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has however, advised residents of the city not to panic as the situation was under control.The militants, according to investigation, made their ways out of jail in the morning taking advantage of the security lax by the absence of warders because the day was a Sunday. Reacting to the development, spokesman of the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS), Mr. Alpheous Ota, a deputy superintendent of prisons, said the militants escaped from the prison, while his counterpart at the state police command, Mr. Ben Onwuegbulem, said the escapees bolted out of the prison in a jail-break operation. According to Onwuegbulem in a text message he sent to journalists, the deputy comptroller of Port Harcourt Prisons reported the incident to the police at about 10:00am Sunday that there had been a jail break in the midnight in the prison at Creek Road. “Reinforced police teams responded swiftly and arrested two inmates: Egbe Gboh and Anthony Akanimo - the former a convicted kidnapper while the latter is awaiting trial for the same offence as his co-conspirator,” the text message stated. Onwuegbulem said the jail break was achieved by “the use of iron beds as ladder to cross into Bundu and Abuja waterfronts,” which were close to the prison. It was gathered that 23 others who attempted to escape from the prison, did not succeed. Under heavy security from the police and prisons officials, a census of the prisoners was taken while further investigation into the incidence continues. In 2005, late Soboma George, leader of Icelanders cult group and a lieutenant in the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), broke out of the same prison in a daring raid staged by his subordinates. THISDAY, however, gathered that some of the escapees in George’s jail break are believed to be among the over 40 militants held in the prison. They are said to have always created “so much” tension within the prison since they were brought in there. A female member of staff of the prisons service, who preferred anonymity, said last night that the jail break was facilitated from outside the prison. According to her, an inmate had arranged with some people outside the prison to bring in a shotgun. She said the gun had been thrown from outside into the prison premises, wrapped and tied in a polythene bag. She added that the inmate had gone to pick the wrapped object when he was accosted by a prison warder who wanted to know what was in the pack. The inmate, according to her, was said to have immediately unwrapped the "parcel" and pointed the gun at the warder, who was not armed. With that, the inmate rendered the warder helpless and held him captive thus making room for him and his fellow inmates to escape from the prison. Meanwhile, in a statement by the governor's spokesman, David Iyofor, Amaechi said security agents moved in quickly, the moment the incident occurred and were been able to restore law, order and security to the prison. "The state police commissioner and the prison's boss have assured me that order has been restored to the prison. Security agents have further assured me that there is no cause for alarm as they are on top of it and have commenced a manhunt for the handful of inmates that got away," the statement said. "Although, security and the management of prisons are under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal Government, in the days ahead, we will be meeting with the police and prison authorities to look at what happened and how we can help to forestall a re-occurrence," Iyofor added.