Taking after the movement of Boko Haram prisoners to the Ekwulobia Prisons in Anambra State, the military have assumed control over the security of the office.
According to PUNCH Newspapers, security operations in the Federal Government office are no more the restrictive protect of the authorities of the Nigeria Prison Service.
The advancement, sources told our reporter, is not detached with the bore of the prisoners being held behind the dividers of the office.
A visit by our journalist to the jail on Saturday demonstrated that outfitted military work force were situated in vital areas around the jail.
The advancement has likewise conveyed some type of hardship to inhabitants of the host groups of the jail.
Free human and vehicular development is no more permitted around the spot. Our journalist located officers convincing passers-by to raise up their arms and get searched before they were permitted section. Vehicles were additionally looked.
Inhabitants of Anambra had a week ago taken to the avenues dissenting against the migration of the prisoners. Yet, the Federal Government had responded saying it was an insignificant gossip.
However, happenings around the office on Friday further learnt assurance to the report that the Boko Haram prisoners had been moved to the calm Anambra town.
"It is similar to a war circumstance. We no more move openly; we don't even talk unreservedly on the grounds that you don't know who will be who now. Reinforced vehicles are all around" Stanley Ezechukwu, a grade teacher in the region told our reporter.
One of the officers who talked on state of obscurity said, "We are here to guarantee that the jail is not assaulted by the individuals who have shown their hatred over the exchange of the prisoners."
Educator Chuwuemeka Ike, the customary Ruler of Ndikerionwu, a neighboring group to Ekwulobia , denounced the exchange of the prisoners to the region.
He recognized, however that penitentiaries exchanges are ordinary, yet kept up that with the touchy way of the detainees, the exchange of the Boko Haram prisoner could have been maintained a strategic distance from.
A press proclamation on Saturday by the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Willie Obiano on Media, Mr James Eze, was not particular on whether the prisoners had been migrated or not.
The announcement titled; "The Transfer of Boko Haram Detainees to Ekwulobia Prisons: the genuine position," kept up that the representative had not put forth any official press expression on the issue as reported in some national dailies.
The announcement read in parts, "We wish to illuminate the overall population that Governor Obiano never made any remarks to these distributions. Since the ejection of this debate, Governor Obiano's position has been predictable. This was completely reflected in the two press Statements issued on Sunday, June 28, 2015 and Wednesday July 1, 2015. In both proclamations, his message was basic – he re-guaranteed Ndi Anambra that he was on top of the circumstance and that he was talking with the applicable powers to accomplish a tranquil determination of the issue. Representative Obiano's dedication to this amazingly touchy issue continues as before."
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr Uche Eze in his response said the police would not have any desire to remark on the matter as "it is absolutely an issue of the Nigerian Prisons Service."
The part speaking to the range in the House of Representatives, Mrs. Eucharia Azodo however asked the Federal Government to cancel the choice in perspective of its security suggestions on the populace of her body electorate.
In an announcement in Awka on Saturday, Azodo said the Boko Haram prisoners would be better dealt with in a greatest security jail, contending that Ekwulobia Prison did not have the ability to suit such high hazard detainees.
She said, "The rising strain taking after gossipy tidbits that Boko Haram suspects were migrated from some Northern penitentiaries toward the South-East, definitely, Ekwulobia in Aguata Local Government of Anambra State, gives me awesome concern.
"We all are mindful of the way that Ekwulobia Prison in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State is not a greatest security jail.
"While countless, around 134 prisoners, are there as of now in a jail assembled to suit 85 detainees, an aggregate number of 47 Boko Haram detainees were acquired to Ekwulobia Prison the dead of the night of Sunday, June 28, 2015 in the midst of tight security."
The young wing of the peak Igbo socio-social association, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has excoriated the Federal Government over the migration.
The National President of Ohanaeze Youth Council, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro who talked with our journalist in Umuahia, portrayed the activity as " exportation of terrorism to the serene South-East district
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