64 Boko Haram suspects escaped from Kuje prison – Defence minister

Bashir Magashi, the Minister of Defence, on Wednesday, said the 64 suspects of Boko Haram in Kuje Correctional Facility are no where to be found.

Magashi made this revelation during a press conference at the facility in Abuja.

Unknown gunmen had launched an attack on the correctional facility with explosives on Tuesday night.

But the defence minister said the attackers are insurgents of Boko Haram and 64 of its members, in the facility, are no where to be found.

He said: “What actually happened, they came in their numbers and released some of the inmates. We are now trying to determine the kind of inmates they released.

“We are trying to see what we can do to see that all escapees within the prison accommodation are brought back to the prison yard.

“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.

“Presently we could not locate any of them. Currently, they are about 64 of them as inmates and we could not locate them.”