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Video Scenes from Kuje Prison After Attack by Terrorists
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtdwSFc-CY

Video Scenes from Kuje Prison After Attack by Terrorists
Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtdwSFc-CY

Video Scenes from Kuje Prison After Attack by Terrorists
Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtdwSFc-CY

Kuje Prison attack: Fears over whereabouts of Abba Kyari, Dariye, Nyame

There is controversy over the whereabouts of suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, who is being remanded at the Kuje Correctional Centre in Abuja.

Video Scenes from Kuje Prison After Attack by Terrorists
Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtdwSFc-CY

Fears over the whereabout of the Deputy Commissioner of Police came after bandits attacked Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja, where he was kept.

It was learnt that during the attack which lasted hours, some inmates were said to have escaped. According to officials, the facility houses over 900 inmates.
A source at the Correctional Centre who spoke on condition of anonymity said: “We have not seen him today. He didn’t also come for Subhi (early morning) prayer as usual. But I don’t know what is happening.”
Another official, who preferred anonymity, said that the whereabouts of Kyari remained unknown to him as of 09.30am.
“I am sure he is not missing and he didn’t escape. But I don’t know where exactly he is,” the official said.
When contacted, the spokesperson for the Nigerian Correctional Service, Umar Abubakar, said “Kyari is not missing”.
Abubakar also noted that Kyari has not been moved from the Kuje prison.
Abubakar in a statement in the early hours of Wednesday said the armed squad of the service in collaboration with other security agencies responded to the attack.
The statement was titled, “Medium Security Custodial Centre, Kuje attacked by gunmen.”
It read, “I wish to confirm that at about 2200hrs, some yet-to-be-identified gunmen attacked the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Kuje, in the Federal Capital Territory.
“However, men of the Armed Squad of the Nigerian Correctional Service and other security agencies attached to the Custodial Centre have responded and calm has been restored to the facility and the situation is under control.
“Other details will be made available soon.”
During a visit to the facility, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Interior, Mr Shuaibu Belgore, also confirmed that about 600 inmates escaped from the Kuje Correctional Centre following Tuesday evening’s attack.
Belgore explained that over 300 of the inmates have been retrieved.
He suspected that the gunmen attacked the facility to rescue their terrorism co-conspirators.
The official added that one person died and three others were injured during the attack.

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/kuje-prison-attack-controversy-over-abba-kyaris-whereabout/

Residents of Kuje Area Council confirmed last night that there were explosions and sporadic gunfire around Kuje Prison.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtdwSFc-CY

The Kuje medium prison facility came under attack about 10:20 pm when what  was  suspected to be a  high calibre bomb went off followed by two more explosions and the ensuing  sporadic gunfire that sent residents scampering for safety

Reportedly confirmed the attack saying the attackers came from the back of the prison.

A resident, who spoke anonymously told THISDAY that there was sustained gunfire that lasted for sometime.

“Yes. There were gunshots that lasted for a long time but it is reduced now”, he said.

A resident, who spoke anonymously told THISDAY that there was sustained gunfire that lasted for sometime.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/07/06/breaking-explosion-gunfire-as-bandits-attack-kuje-prison/

Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), says he would remove the costly petrol subsidy if there is an alternative.
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Obi said this on Wednesday during a live interview on Arise TV.

The presidential candidate said petrol subsidy is not beneficial to the country’s economy, describing it as a scam.

TheCable had reported that petrol subsidy payments gulped N1.27 trillion in the last five months — about 31 percent of the N4 trillion provision for the year. It eroded oil gains as Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited failed to remit revenue to the federation account.

"We have spent over $40 billion on subsidy. Our total education expenditure in the past 10 years is about N8 trillion (about $20 billion on $400/$1). This is 50 percent of it,” Peter Obi said.

“If we spent $20 billion in power, we would have been generating and distributing 20,000 megawatts of electricity today.

“It means subsidy alone would have solved a lot of issues in our education, health and in power. If we have 20,000mw, we will be growing at more than 4 percent and add over $100 billion to our GDP.

Within the same period, we’ve borrowed $90 billion, which we’re servicing. With this, you could see total mismanagement of resources that could have changed the entire north… that vast land would have been huge farmland.”

On whether or not to remove subsidy, Obi said, “We have to study and look at it critically. Yes and No, because I would remove it, but I have to offer them what would be equivalent to what we are removing.

“Yes, I am going to use the resources to do something that would benefit, but if I am not going to do that I am not going to remove it. You must be able to offer something in replacement for what you are going to do.

“I cannot spend $40 billion on subsidy and expended 50 percent of it on education and health. Even security. Are you saying [petrol] subsidy is more important than the security of lives and property?

“I have been saying subsidy is a scam, and I will continue to say it. There are so many scams all over the place, including the cost of governance.”

https://www.thecable.ng/i-would-offer-an-equivalent-peter-obi-speaks-on-how-to-tackle-petrol-subsidy/amp