The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has said 65 personnel of a joint task force were present at the Kuje Correctional Facility, Abuja, on the day it was attacked.
Mr Aregbesola stated this on Monday while appearing before a joint Committee of the House of Representatives.
He said the 65 personnel comprised men from the Nigerian Army, NSCDC, Nigerian Immigration Services and other agencies.
Kuje attack…
PREMIUM TIMES reported the attack on the Kuje prison by terrorists on 5 July .
Over 800 prison inmates escaped during the attack with about half of them still at large. Those still at large include about 60 Boko Haram members.
ISWAP, a breakaway faction of Boko Haram, claimed responsibility for the attack and later released a video of the incident.
Questions have been raised on how the terrorists were able to carry out the attack despite their proximity to some military installations in the Federal Capital Territory.
In July, Mr Aregbesola had claimed that the…
