Notorious kidnapper and gunrunner, Hamisu Wadume, is said to be among the escapees of Tuesday night attack on Kuje prison by terrorists. Wadume, who was remanded in custody at Kuje prison, for armed robbery, kidnaping and gun running after his arrest by operatives of the Intelligence Response Team(IRT), has not been found since after the attack on the facility. The suspect who has been in custody at Kuje prisons since 2020, was not among prisoners recaptured by the security agencies. Recalled that Hamisu Wadume, was arrested by IRT operatives in Taraba for terrorizing people of the state with his criminal activities. But the IRT operatives came under heavy firing by soldiers of 93 Battalion, Takum, in Taraba state, killing three police officers and one civilian staff in the process. The soldiers who also rescued Wadume, from the IRT operatives were said to have carried out the operations on the orders of their commanding officer, Major Balarabe. The killing of the police officers drew condemnation from the public. The suspects was later rearrested by the operatives at Kano and brought to Abuja, and charged to court, where he was remanded in prison custody.

  The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has called on the Federal Government to show evidence that its members incarcerated at Kuje Prisons were still alive and safe. IPOB made this demand on Thursday in its reaction to the terrorists attack at Kuje Prisons, Abuja, on Tuesday night, where more than 400 inmates escaped and many were still at large. Meanwhile, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters have claimed responsibility for the attack in a video on Wednesday. Read Also: Kuje Prison: More attacks coming, be at alert, US warns citizens Kuje attack: I fled with my 3 kids as bombs rained — Housewife Likes of Kwankwaso reason Nigeria’s still world’s poverty capital — Peter Obi On IPOB’s demand, made in a statement by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful, the pro-Biafra group also demanded that its members detained illegally in the prison should be freed. The Nnamdi Kanu-led group expressed worry that the Federal Government deploys security agents to peaceful communities in the South-East, whereas the North, rampaged by terrorists and bandits, has low presence of security operatives. The statement read in part: “We, the global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), under our great leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, wish to let the world know that IPOB members were profiled and detained in Kuje Prison yards for simply being indigenous to Biafra and of Igbo race. “We have their details and want them alive because if anything untoward happens to our comrades, who are detained in Kuje, IPOB will never take it easy. “It is high time these innocent folks are released. Nigeria cannot continue to detain them indefinitely while allowing terrorists and bandits to come and slaughter them under disguised arrangements. “A very pertinent question to ask is how can bandits and terrorists be rampaging the North, even supposedly attacking the President’s convoy and breaking into prison yards to release their colleagues, while the government deployed and continue to deploy battalion of soldiers to occupy many peaceful communities in Biafraland? “Our intelligence unit uncovered an evil plan against our leader. We are, therefore, demanding that our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, be transferred immediately to a prison in the Eastern region for his safety. “If anything untoward happens to him, Nigeria will see and feel total and consuming madness. Even after the Biafran nation’s freedom is fully achieved, they will never have peace.”

  A Civil Society Organization (CSO), Center for Democratic and Security Reforms has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sack the National Security Adviser (NSA) and the Minister of Defence for what it described as laxity and gross failure to coordinate operations in the face of ever daring terrorists activities in the country, further accusing the NSA of direct complicity in all the terrorists attacks recently in the country especially the Kuje prison attacks which took place on the 5th of July, 2022. Addressing journalists in Abuja on Thursday, Executive Secretary of the group, Alhaji Shettima Ibn Hamisu, wondered why terrorists numbering more than 300 and riding on motorcycles can attack a medium security prison housing high-profile criminals under the nose of the NSA without being challenged “We are appalled by the barbaric and dastard attacks that took pl`ace in the Federal Capital Territory on a medium prison facility where the office of the NSA is headquartered. It is shameful that the NSA has woefully failed to gather and coordinate operations even within few kilometers from his office and residence. This is totally unacceptable and must be sacked to pave way for a competent Nigerian who will resuscitate operations coordination of the comatose state the current occupant of the office has left it”, the statement insisted. The CSO lamented the inability to send reinforcements to the scene of the attack after almost 3 hours of non-stop attacks and guns, noting that the only person charged with the responsibility for coordinating other security agencies is the NSA who sadly failed woefully to act because he is clueless and probably complicit in the whole attacks. “It is very disheartening to note that the attacks on the Kuje Prison lasted between 10pm on the 5th of July to almost 2am without any reinforcement. This is suspicious because of the very many military installations in and around the Kuje area. “We have reliably gathered that intelligence was provided before the attack but nothing was done to prevent it because the NSA chose to ignore it like he did during the Abuja train incident. If not for gross negligence and incompetence, how can 300 plus motorbikes ride inside Abuja, commit an attack on federal maximum prison and ride back to wherever they came from without any hindrance and interception?” the statement queried. While calling on PMB to swiftly act to put an end to the spate of unprovoked attacks on the nation which have continued unchallenged because of a comatose NSA, the CSO urged Nigerians to remain calm as peace and security will soon be restored to the country once a competent and professional person is appointed as the next NSA.