- …Expresses sadness at Kuje prison attack
By Lateef Ibrahim, Abuja
Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the next year’s general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has expressed concern and sadness at the Tuesday night’s attack on Kuje Prison by suspected terrorists.
This is even as he identified the inability of the nation to enthrone a regime of law and order in which the arrest and prosecution of criminals will be made a priority as a deterrent to copycats as the reason why insecurity continues to fester in our country.
Atiku said these in a tweet on of his verified tweeter handle yesterday.
The PDP presidential candidate stated that his concern arose not only from the prospects of the escape of detained terrorists and hardened criminals but of its implications for the security of lives and property to residents of Abuja and its environs.
The tweet by Atiku reads, “I am concerned and saddened by reports of the attack on Kuje Prison by suspected terrorists.
“My concern arises not only from the prospects of the escape of detained terrorists and hardened criminals but of its implications for the security of lives and property to residents of Abuja and its environs.
“I wish to restate what I said to THISDAY Newspapers on Monday that our inability to enthrone a regime of law and order in which the arrest and prosecution of criminals will be made a priority as a deterrent to copycats is the reason why insecurity continues to fester in our country”, he said.
