*Says 61,000 Boko Haram suspects held in North-East
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In an apparent move to forestall the reoccurrence of the armed invasion of Kuje Medium Security Custodial Centre, Abuja, the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Arẹgbẹsọla, on Tuesday, paid a surprise visit to the Kirikiri Maximum and Medium Security Custodial Centres in Kirikiri, Apapa, Lagos State.
Arẹgbẹsọla during the visit advised officers and men of the Nigeria security forces and paramilitary agencies in the country to remain vigilant and continually remain on the watch to be able to defeat criminal elements terrorising the country.
“We must acknowledge our servicemen and security agencies, who have sacrificed a lot to make this possible. We must equally charge them to remain eternally vigilant and continuously evolve strategies. And to define these strategies, we have to make decisions based not on fear, but on hard-earned wisdom.
“I have also informed our officers and men here that they must fight to defend our institutions, territory and constitution. It also applies to all others wherever they are posted in Nigeria. The ragtag groups of opportunists must not be allowed to attack our institutions and get away. They must not live to tell the story,” Ogbeni Aregbesola stated.
On the part of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), the Minister directed that the management of the Service should improve its efforts on intelligence gathering and acting on such information garnered, saying was the only panacea to solving the problem of incessant Custodial Centres attacks.
The Minister in a statement by his Media Adviser, Sola Fasure, however, noted that so far, no jailbreak by inmates has been successful because of high level of surveillance and infrastructure in place in the Custodial Centres across the country.
“What we have reoccurring since the #EndSars protests of October 2020, has been a mass of people attacking our facilities from outside and setting the inmates free.
“However, I have now directed the Controller General of the NCoS to double his efforts on intelligence gathering to fortify and prevent breaches to the Custodial Centres beyond the use of arms and force,” Aregbesola said.
He further stated that the country is on the path to totally defeating Boko Haram terrorists and other criminals ravaging the country, stating that many of them have been arrested, especially in the North-East.
“Today, a core of the criminal elements and insurgents across the country are on a path to defeat, they have been heavily degraded. Over 61,000 of them are in our custody in the North-East.
“Our assurance to Nigerians is that we shall rise above these challenges and emerge stronger and more resilient,” the Minister assured.
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