NDLEA Arrests Wanted Kuje Jailbreaker with Drugs, Police Nab Another

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have re-arrested a wanted terrorist, who escaped from the Medium Security Correctional Centre, Kuje, following an attack on the last week, in Abuja.

A press statement by the spokesman of the NDLEA, Mr. Femi Babafemi, stated that, the fleeing terror suspect, Suleiman Sidi, was arrested in the early hours of Monday at Area 1 motorpark, in the Federal Capital Territory, while attempting to board a commercial vehicle to Maiduguri, Borno State.

Babafemi said upon searching, three wraps of cannabis sativa were found on him, adding that during preliminary interrogation, the wanted terror suspect confirmed he was remanded at the Kuje Correctional Centre for terrorism and robbery charges.

He also confirmed that he was indeed one of the inmates, who escaped from the facility last Tuesday.

In a related development, the Police Command in Niger State, has said it also recaptured Kazeem Murtala, one of the inmates, who escaped during the Kuje jailbreak.

Spokesman for the command, Wasiu Abiodun, in a statement explained that a patrol team on surveillance between the General Hospital, Suleja and Bakassi, arrested the inmate on July 9 at 8:30pm.

Abiodun explained that based on credible intelligence, the police patrol team arrested the inmate at an unidentified compound.

During interrogation, the inmate was said to have confessed that he escaped from Kuje custodial center during the attack and had been in custody for two years for an offence he committed.

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