As controversy continues to trail the recent relocation of Boko Haram prisoners to a prison in Anambra State, Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, representing Abia State in the National Assembly, has advised the Federal Government to order an immediate return of the prisoners to the Northeast in the interest of peace.
He made this declaration in Abuja at the weekend while interacting with journalists, insisting that he would raise the issue as a matter of urgent public importance on the floor of the senate when the lawmakers resume sitting next two weeks. According to him, transfer of such high-profile terrorists to a local prison in Anambra State was a matter of concern to all.
Boko Haram prisoners were reportedly transferred to Ekwulobia prison in Aguata Local Government of the state by the Nigeria Prison Service.
Speaking on behalf of South east Senators, Ohuabunwa said, “there was no justifiable reason for the transfer of Boko Haram prisoners to a local prison from far away north where the said terrorists were arrested.”
He added that “the presence of the said inmates in a local prison would create avoidable tension and fear of the unknown in the area. If the transfer of the said inmates is true, it should be reversed without further delay,” saying that “such prisoners should be confined in the states where they committed the crime or other states in the north with maximum prisons.”
Senator Ohabunwa further argued that it was “a security risk to send such prisoners to a local prison in a place with porous security presence. “No amount of explanations would justify the transfer of terrorists to a state in the South east”. Accordingly, he vowed to mobilise his colleagues to push for the immediate reversal of the decision when Senate resumes sitting on July 21.
Olympic Am impress to hear dis…thanks to God dat some of our igbo leaders are no longer blindfolded..the detainees must live…dats for such..igbo kweenu!
now Igbos are coming out of shelves
Because Anambra state use to bear Home for All, b4 Peter Obi changed it to light of the Nation
I trust d Senators
They must be very stupid if it is true, of all the places in Nigeria, is Anambra they decided to dump those animals