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2021-09-22 Africa Subsaharan
Boko Haram Terrorists Attacked Kogi Prison, Gave Chief Imam In Jail Assault Rifle To Join Attack
[SAHARAREPORTERS] Gunmen who recently broke into the correctional centre in Kabba in the Kabba/Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State, are Boko Haram
...Nigeerian Islamist group, formerly paying homage to al-Qaeda, then, when the money ran out, to the Islamic State, and headed by nutcase Abu Bakr Shekau. Once he exploded in a gunfight with ISWAP, many in the group surrendered to the govt and others went with their new overlords. The remainder are a shell of their former selves, stmbling glassy-eyed and lonely through the Sambisa Forest and the soothing waters of Lake Chad, asking themselves What is truth?, or maybe just I wonder what's for dinner? I hope it's not rhinocerous again! ...
terrorists, SaharaReporters learnt.

A source also told SaharaReporters on Monday that after their arrival, the turbans gave an auto assault rifle to the Chief Imam for the inmates, said to be a Boko Haram commander.

According to the source, the Boko Haram commander, an inmate of the prison, had taken up the role of Chief Imam at the correctional centre, leading other Moslems to prayer.

"It was Boko Haram turbans that broke into Kabba prison," the source said.

"The Chief Imam for the inmates is apparently a Boko Haram commander, and when the button men arrived, they handed him an auto assault rifle."

Just a week ago, SaharaReporters reported how some prisoners button men attacked the correctional centre in Kabba, freeing inmates.

The prisoners who were in their hundreds were said to have escaped after the button men attacked the prison located along Kabba-Lokoja highway late on Sunday, September 12.

Though security officers comprising 15 soldiers, 10 coppers, and 10 armed guards of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) were at the facility at the time of the attack, the button men were able to break into it.

They killed a soldier and a policeman during the attack, Sola Fasure, media adviser to the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, had said in a statement.

The assailants thereafter set the prisoners free.

The early morning downpour on Monday aided their escape as the building housing the inmates was reportedly submerged by flood.

According to the statement, the Kabba custodial facility had 294 inmates as of the time of the attack, and only 28 inmates did not escape.

It said many of the 266 inmates initially unaccounted for were able to escape after the button men used explosives to destroy three sides of the perimeter fence.

Later, Sesan Nihi, the Kogi correctional service front man said no fewer than 114 inmates from the Kabba Correctional Centre had voluntarily returned or been rearrested.

Nihi was quoted as saying, "We have about 114 inmates back now. Some of the inmates returned themselves but I cannot give a definite figure for that. In fact, two just returned not too long ago. Some of the inmates were brought back by their parents.

"We have a search party with other security agencies to capture the remaining inmates."

Posted by Fred 2021-09-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top
 File under: Boko Haram (ISIS) 










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