By Our Correspondent
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday visited the Kuje Correctional facility following the terrorist attack on it.
According to Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, the president spent about 30 minutes there.
Soon after he arrived, he was briefed about the attack by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Dr. Shuaib Mohammad Lamido Belgore, and the Controller General of Nigerian Correctional Service, Haliru Nababa, showing him the bombed-out section used to access first, and the records office which was set on fire, adding that the invaders thereafter launched an attack on all cells in which Boko Haram terrorists were held.
He said Buhari “was apprised that at, the end of it, none of the 63 terrorists are accounted for, but it was emphasised that records are not lost because they have been backed up.”
