Nigeria’s Minister of Defence, Bashir Magashi, says all suspected Boko Haram terrorists incarcerated at the Kuje prison escaped after the attack on the facility on Tuesday night.
OduNews had reported how unknown gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram terrorists attacked the prison and freed over 600 prisoners.
Magashi confirmed that the attackers are Boko Haram insurgents and 64 of its members, who were inmates in the facility, cannot be found.
He said: “What actually happened, they came in their numbers and released some of the inmates. We are now trying to determine the kind of inmates they released.
“We are trying to see what we can do to see that all escapees within the prison accommodation are brought back to the prison yard.
“About 994 inmates, we have about 600 already inside now. Many people are being recaptured. The people who came to do this, from the records, belong to a particular group, from all indicators they are Boko haram.
“Presently we could not locate any of them. Currently, they are about 64 of them as inmates and we could not locate them.”
