Kuje prison attack: Why Boko Haram terrorists succeeded – FG

The Federal Government of Nigeria has admitted that terrorists who attacked the Correctional Centre, Kuje in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) succeeded because of their large number and the superior firepower.

The Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammed Dingyadi, made this known while responding to questions from State House Correspondents after the emergency National Security Council meeting presided over by President Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

According to him, the security personnel deployed to the facility did their best to repel the attack but were subdued by the superior weaponry of the terrorists.

“You see these kinds of things. They happen. And I want to assure you that all those who are supposed to play a role in ensuring that the attack is neutralized did the best that they could to neutralize it. I think what helped them (terrorists) was the number of people they came with and the superior weapons that they came with. And because nobody anticipated it, the few people who were there guarding the place could not withstand the number that they came with. I think that was what happened.

“Like I said, this investigation is still going on. You will only do good to allow the investigation to continue and maybe by the time they finish, you will be able to get the details of what actually happened and why it happened.”

“Some of them have been killed. But I can’t give you the number and I don’t know the number. Because like they use to do, whenever one of them is killed, they take the corpse away and you cannot know the number of people who have been killed but definitely quite a number of them were killed and many of them runway with bullet wounds.”