Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested one of the wanted terror suspects who escaped from the Medium Security Correctional Centre, Kuje, sequel to an attack on the facility by insurgents last week in Abuja.
Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi disclosed this in a statement in Abuja.
Babafemi said the terror who was trying to escape, Suleiman Sidi, was arrested in the early hours of Monday 11th July at Area 1 motorpark, in the Federal Capital Territory while attempting to board a commercial vehicle to Maiduguri, Borno state.
When being searched, three wraps of cannabis sativa were found on him.
He explained that, during preliminary interview, the wanted terror suspect confimed he was remanded at the Kuje Correctional Centre for terrorism and robbery charges, affirming that he was indeed one of the inmates who escaped from the facility last Tuesday.
He said, while lauding the officers and men of the FCT Command of the Agency for the arrest and their vigilance, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has directed that the wanted suspect to be handed over to the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS immediately.