Aregbesola orders NCS to improve intelligence
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By Solomon Odeniyi, Abuja
July 12, 2022
Home Minister Rauf Aregbesola has ordered the Nigerian Correctional Service to improve its intelligence gathering efforts.
He said that this information collected should be dealt with, describing it as the panacea to solve the problem of the incessant attacks on the detention center.
According to a statement by the Minister's Media Adviser, Sola Fasure, the Minister spoke during a visit to Kirikiri Maximum and Medium Security Detention Centres, Apapa, Lagos State on Tuesday.
Aregbesola also reportedly boasted that no escape attempt by inmates had succeeded.
The statement read in part: "So far no prisoner escapes have been successful, we have successfully suppressed them all. What has been happening since the #EndSARS protests of October 2020 is a mass of people attacking our facilities from the outside and freeing the detainees.
“However, I have now directed the NCoS Comptroller General to redouble intelligence gathering efforts to fortify and prevent breaches in detention facilities beyond the use of weapons and strength."
The minister further said the country is on track to fully defeat Boko Haram terrorists and other criminals ravaging the country, saying more than 61,000 are in custody in the North East.
“Today, a core of criminal and insurgent elements across the country are on the path to defeat, they have been heavily degraded. More than 61,000 of them are in our custody in the Northeast.
"Our assurance to Nigerians is that we will overcome these challenges and emerge stronger and more resilient."
He, however, directed service personnel to ensure that detention facilities are defended against any form of attack, warning that no more attacks on the facilities should occur.
Aregbesola said: "I have also informed our officers and men here that they must fight to defend our institutions, our territory and our constitution. It applies equally to everyone else, wherever they be assigned to Nigeria. The ragtag groups of opportunists must not be allowed to attack our institutions and flee. They must not live to tell the tale.”
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By Solomon Odeniyi, Abuja
July 12, 2022
Home Minister Rauf Aregbesola has ordered the Nigerian Correctional Service to improve its intelligence gathering efforts.
He said that this information collected should be dealt with, describing it as the panacea to solve the problem of the incessant attacks on the detention center.
According to a statement by the Minister's Media Adviser, Sola Fasure, the Minister spoke during a visit to Kirikiri Maximum and Medium Security Detention Centres, Apapa, Lagos State on Tuesday.
Aregbesola also reportedly boasted that no escape attempt by inmates had succeeded.
The statement read in part: "So far no prisoner escapes have been successful, we have successfully suppressed them all. What has been happening since the #EndSARS protests of October 2020 is a mass of people attacking our facilities from the outside and freeing the detainees.
“However, I have now directed the NCoS Comptroller General to redouble intelligence gathering efforts to fortify and prevent breaches in detention facilities beyond the use of weapons and strength."
The minister further said the country is on track to fully defeat Boko Haram terrorists and other criminals ravaging the country, saying more than 61,000 are in custody in the North East.
“Today, a core of criminal and insurgent elements across the country are on the path to defeat, they have been heavily degraded. More than 61,000 of them are in our custody in the Northeast.
"Our assurance to Nigerians is that we will overcome these challenges and emerge stronger and more resilient."
He, however, directed service personnel to ensure that detention facilities are defended against any form of attack, warning that no more attacks on the facilities should occur.
Aregbesola said: "I have also informed our officers and men here that they must fight to defend our institutions, our territory and our constitution. It applies equally to everyone else, wherever they be assigned to Nigeria. The ragtag groups of opportunists must not be allowed to attack our institutions and flee. They must not live to tell the tale.”
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