Monday 29 August 2016

Riot at Kuje Prison, Abuja

There is a riot currently ongoing at Kuje Prison in Abuja. The prison inmates who tried to escape have been teargassed while bullets have been fired into some of the prison cells. The new Comptroller-General (CG) of the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS), Ja'afaru Ahmed, has arrived the prison premises. Mobile police officers have been drafted to the environment.