More Details Emerge On Kuje Prison Attack | READ FULL DETAILS
Faith Ukanwa
Jul 06, 2022
More Details Emerge On Kuje Prison Attack | READ FULL DETAILS
The Tuesday night attack on Kuje Correctional facility in Abuja facilitated the escape of 600 inmates including at least 64 confined Boko Haram terrorists.
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According to the Minister for Defence, Major General Bashir Magashi (retd), 300 escapees have been retrieved while others are still at large.
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Terrorists suspected to be Boko Haram members had invaded the facility at about 10pm with explosives, shooting sporadically and burning vehicles.
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"Well, we too heard the attack. The incident started between 10 and 10:25 am the security operatives recaptured some. What actually happened was they came in their numbers and released some of the inmates. We are now trying to see the kind of inmates they released.
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"We are trying to see what we can do to see that all escapes within the prison accommodation are brought back to the prison yard.
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"About 994 inmates, we have about 600 already inside now. Many people are being recaptured. The people who came to do this from the records belong to a particular group, from all indicators they are Boko Haram.
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"Currently, they are about 64 of them as inmates and we could not locate them" the minister told newsmen.
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— Faith Ukanwa