Kuje Prison Break: NDLEA Arrests Terror Suspect, As Security Agencies Intensify Manhunt For Others

By Akinwale Kasali

Eagle eye operatives of the National Drugs and Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested one of the wanted Boko Haram Terrorist who escaped from the Medium Security Correctional Centre, Kuje, last week during an attack on the facility by suspected terrorists.

The terrorists freed over 800 inmates of the prison, among them key leaders of Boko Haram, according to Gen Bashir Mgashi the Minister of Defence.

The federal government has declared 68 terrorists who escaped from the prison wanted, while security agencies have launched a manhunt for them.

One of the escaped prisoners has now been apprehended by the Brig Gen. Buba Buba Mohammed Marwa(rtd) -led anti-narcotic agency.

The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA Femi Babafemi, made this known in a Statement in Abuja on Monday.

He explained that the fleeing terror suspect, Suleiman Sidi, was arrested in the early hours of Monday July 11 at Area 1 Motor Park, in the Federal Capital Territory while attempting to board a commercial vehicle to Maiduguri, Borno state.

The NDLEA operatives suspected him and stop him for searching in which three wraps of cannabis sativa were found on him.

During preliminary interview, the wanted terror suspect confimed he was remanded at the Kuje Correctional Centre for terrorism and robbery charges, adding that he was indeed one of the inmates who escaped from the facility last Tuesday.

While commending the officers and men of the FCT Command of the Agency for the arrest and their vigilance, Chairman/Chief of NDLEA, Gen. Marwa directed that the wanted suspect be immediately handed over to the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS.

Recall that the Ministry of Interior and the National Prison Service said that 68 Boko Haram Prisoners were on the run following the Kuje jailbreak last week.