Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested one of the wanted terror suspects who escaped from the Medium Security Correctional Centre, Kuje, following an attack on the facility by insurgents last week in Abuja.
The fleeing terror suspect, Suleiman Sidi, was arrested in the early hours of Monday 11th July at Area 1 motorpark, in the Federal Capital Territory while attempting to board a commercial vehicle to Maiduguri, Borno state. When he was searched, three wraps of cannabis sativa were found on him.
During preliminary interview, the wanted terror suspect confimed he was remanded at the Kuje Correctional Centre for terrorism and robbery charges, adding that he was indeed one of the inmates who escaped from the facility last Tuesday.
While commending the officers and men of the FCT Command of the Agency for the arrest and their vigilance, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has directed that the wanted suspect should be immediately handed over to the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS.
The Kuje custodial Centre of the Nigerian Correctional Service had come under an attack on Tuesday the 5th o July from people suspected to be members of the Islamic Province of West Africa Province of the global Terror Group ISIS.
The attack which allegedly lasted several hours led to the escape of over 800 inmates who were in the Centre including 64 High Profile members of Boko Haram who were undergoing trial for Terror offences.
Some of the fleeing inmates have since been re-arrested with Suleiman Sidi a Terror suspect whose picture appeared on the builletin of the Nigerian Correctional Service declaring him wanted for escaping the Kuje Custodial Centre in the Course of the aqttack will now be returned to another facility of the Correctional Service once he is properly profiled.
His re-arrest is a major success for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency and the nations security architecture.
