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Kuje Prison Attack: Officials Indicted As Buhari Receives Report
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Kuje Prison Attack: Officials Indicted As Buhari Receives Report

President Muhammadu Buhari has received the report of a preliminary investigation conducted on the attack and release of some terror suspects in the Kuje prison, Abuja. Recall that gunmen in their numbers carried out a jailbreak on the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Kuje, eliciting widespread condemnation from members of the public. Shortly after the jailbreak, the Islamic State’s West Africa Province, ISWAP, took responsibility for the attack and backed its claim with footage of the incident. See Also: Kuje Prison: Why Attackers Succeeded – Aregbesola Scores of terror suspects and other dangerous criminals were freed, with several of them still on the run. A manhunt is still ongoing. Rauf Aregbesola, Minister of Interior, disclosed on Thursday that the report of a...