Tasks Royal Fathers to apprehend escapees
By Joyce Remi-Babayeju
The FCT Minister Mallam Muhammad Musa Bello has described the Tuesday night attack on Kuje Medium Correctional Facility which led to escape of suspected as sad and unfortunate while urging Traditional Rulers to work with security operatives to ensure the escapees are recaptured.
Bello who visited the facility on Wednesday, for an on-the-spot assessment of damage after the attack called on the Gomo of Kuje, HRH Haruna Tanko Jibrin to summon all traditional chiefs in Kuje Area Council to combine intelligence with security agencies to fish out the escaped inmates from the community.
He also called on members of the communities to provide appropriate intelligence to the security agencies to enable them do their work, adding that with maximum cooperation from the communities, all those who escaped would be traced, found and brought back since no one could go into any community and blend without being spotted by members of the community.
The Minister who met with the Comptroller General, Nigeria Correctional Service, Haliru Nababa and the Gomo of Kuje during the visit, described the incident as “very sad and unfortunate”, adding that such incidents threaten everybody, hence the need for everyone to support the security agencies in carrying out their assignments.
The Minister also disclosed that efforts are being made to strengthen security, not only around the facility, but the Kuje Area Council and other parts of the territory.
He expressed condolences to the Gomo of Kuje, and sympathised with the family of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps officer who lost his life during the incident, describing him as fine and gallant officer.
On the Minister’s entourage to the correction facility were, the FCT Police Commissioner, Sunday Babaji and heads of all the security agencies in the FCT, the Chairman of Kuje Area Council, Hon. Abdullahi Suleiman Sabo, and other senior officials of the FCT Administration.
