Monday, June 29, 2015

47 Boko Haram Prisoners Allegedly Arrive Ekwulobia Prisons

Vanguard gathered last night that 47 Boko Haram prisoners were brought to Ekwulobia prisons in the dead of the night of Sunday, June 28, amid tight security.

Yesterday, agitated people in various parts of the state were seen making telephone calls and Ekwulobia, the fourth largest city in the state, has been getting renewed attention, with those whose relations are serving sentences in the medium security prison expressing worry over the development, which they said would put their relations there at great risk, in view of the antecedents of Boko Haram suspects.

The State Commissioner for Information, Culture, and Tourism, Dr. Uju Nwogu, could not confirm the development, even as she said Governor Willie Obiano had gone to Abuja to meet President Muhammadu Buhari over the matter.

Following the governor’s absence, the weekly state executive council meeting, which holds every Monday, could not hold yesterday.

Obiano’s Senior Special Assistant on Media, Mr. James Eze, had in a statement, exonerated the governor from the relocation arrangement.

Eze said further that Governor Obiano’s efforts to establish understanding and achieve speedy and peaceful resolution of the matter went to the highest authorities, adding that he was given assurances that the matter would be looked into, with a view to resolving it.

There were also feelers that traders in the commercial town of Onitsha have vowed to continue their protest, following alleged relocation of the prisoners from the Northern part of the country to Ekwulobia Prisons.

10 comments:

  1. It's better the government establish an agency whose aim wil be to arrest any media or journalist who can't provide a good claim to its information.

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  2. Dis is fucked up menn! Why Ekwulobia of all places? Hmmm! "Uwaifo don talk e own o".

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  3. Let me believe this story is fake...but if its true then Mr president will lose d peoples trust because he himself deny any such plan earlier

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  4. I don't trust ds story one bit, until som1 from d state confirms it

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  5. Another side of the supper story

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  6. This is not true,top secret dey na

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