486 Aba Travellers: Army Frees 144

One hundred and forty-four of the 486 travellers suspected to be Boko Haram members, who were arrested last week in Aba, Abia State, along the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway have the been released by the Nigerian Army.

This was confirmed at a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday by the Coordinator of the National Information Centre, Mike Omeri. He said the suspects were freed after preliminary examination.

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The suspects were travelling last week at night in a convoy of 35 buses from the north when they were apprehended by security officials.

“144 of the number have been released. It is expected that the media and the general public will be kept abreast of further developments,” Omeri disclosed, revealing further that, “one of the (suspects) connected with the package of the trip has been named and investigation is painstakingly continuing to unravel the issues involved in the incidence.”

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But he declined naming the said sponsor of the trip.

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