The Nigerian military has revealed that Terrorists are planning to attack 3 more prisons in the country.
According to military intelligence, terrorists are planning to free their detained fighters by attacking prison facilities in Gusau, Birnin Kebbi, and Katsina.
It was gathered that the plan is to attack the prisons successively due to limited logistics as they would have opted to attack simultaneously.
Nigeria’s North-Western region, where all three prison facilities are situated, is struggling to tackle the scourge of Terrorism as recently, Bandits alongside Ansarul, ISWAP, and Boko Haram terror groups have penetrated the region from the North-East.
Earlier this month, Kuje Prisons in Abuja was attacked by a coalition of Ansarul and Boko Haram terrorists leading to the escape of over 400 inmates. According to Premium Times, the military, in its latest warning, said the terror attack” may be staged” on a Friday, explicitly indicating this Friday, 29 July, for the first in Gusau, Zamfara State.
Describing the logic behind striking on a Friday, military intelligence sources said that is when the terrorists believe senior prison officials would have travelled for the weekend or stayed off duty at their various homes.
In addition, at such time, the terrorists perceive that it could be easier to compromise warders to smuggle logistical coordination items, like telephones, into the prisons.
