The majority of the 700 inmates at Abuja’s Kuje correctional facility in the Federal Capital Territory have escaped.
Other inmates, including the suspended deputy commissioner of police, Abba Kyari, who was remanded at the prison by a Federal High Court, were also removed from the facility.
Kyari is on trial for allegedly dealing cocaine with four members of his former police unit, the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Unit (IRT), and two other people arrested in January this year at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu, Enugu State.
On Tuesday night, gunmen suspected of being terrorists attacked a prison facility in Nigeria’s capital city, and the facility was destroyed by the assailants’ heavy firepower.
Around 10 p.m., the gunmen stormed the facility.
At the time of filing this report, details about the casualties from the attack were still sketchy, but one inside source said many inmates were able to escape.
“The place was completely ruined, and all the inmates, including Abba Kyari, have left the facility for the time being,” one of the inside sources said.
Most of the inmates have escaped from the facility; it is sad. It houses over 700 inmates,” another source said.
Earlier, while the attack was going on, one of our sources had said, “Can you hear the gunshot, we are under serious attack.”
Kuje prison was established in 1989, it has minimum and maximum holding cells where inmates are incarcerated.
It is famous for holding high-profile offenders, including former governors and ministers.
