Federal Government Denies Plan To Create Boko Haram Detention Centre In Lagos

A secret detention centre for Boko Haram suspects in Lagos?

A foreign agency report on Thursday, quoting an unnamed top security official, says the government has opened a secret centre in Lagos "to hold and interrogate suspected high-level" members of the violent Islamic sect.

But the Federal Government on Thursday denied any move to create such a facility in Lagos.

Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, told our correspondent on telephone that the government had no such plan, adding that the counter-terror strategy of the government did not include such a facility.

He said, "To the best of my knowledge, there is no such. The prisons in Lagos are full already and we are not contemplating any movement of terror suspects to anywhere."

The Nigerian Prisons Service also said it was not aware of any plan to move Boko Haram suspects to prisons in Lagos.

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