By Ochogwu Sunday The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar has condemned the attack on the Ku...
By Ochogwu Sunday
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, Atiku Abubakar has condemned the attack on the Kuje correctional facility
by terrorists.
DAILY POST recalls that at least 600 inmates ecaped the Kuje
prison in the Nigeria’s capital after terrorists suspected to be Boko Haram
fighters attacked the facility on Tuesday night.
Reacting, Atiku, a former vice president, expressed worries
that the hardened criminals who escaped from the facility may pose more
security problems in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
According to him, insecurity has continued to deteriorate in
the country because Nigerians were unable to “enthrone a regime of law and
order in which the arrest and prosecution of criminals will be made a
priority.”
A post on his social medi handles reads, “I am concerned and
saddened by reports of the attack on Kuje Prison by suspected terrorists.
“My concern arises not only from the prospects of the escape
of detained terrorists and hardened criminals but of its implications for the
security of lives and property to residents of Abuja and its environs.
“I wish to restate what I said on Monday that our inability
to enthrone a regime of law and order in which the arrest and prosecution of
criminals will be made a priority as a deterrent to copycats is the reason why
insecurity continues to fester in our country”.
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