Sani Mohammed, a top Boko Haram commander arrested along with Kabir Sokoto in January this year has escaped from police custody.
Reports say Mohammed, who was said to have been kept with other
terror suspects, curiously slipped away from the police cell in Abuja on
Thursday.
Though there have been denials emanating from the police force headquarters over news of the reported escape, security sources maintain that Mohammed absconded from custody.
Deputy force public relations officer, Frank Mba,
said no terror suspect escaped from its custody, adding that a check of
its records showed no such name as Sani Mohammed on its list of
detainees.
He said, “The police authority hereby informs the
public that the information being circulated by TV Station is totally
untrue and should be disregarded in its entirety.”
This is not the first time a terror suspect will be
escaping from police custody, Kabir Sokoto, the alleged mastermind of
the Saint Theresa Catholic Church, Madalla bombing, escaped from the
police at Abaji, a satellite town in the Federal Capital Territory.
Sokoto was arrested at the Borno State Governor’s Lodge, Abuja.
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