Zakari Biu released from detention after 9 months

NINE months after he was detained over alleged complicity in the escape of Boko Haram kingpin, Kabiru Sokoto, former Commissioner of Police in charge of Special Investi-gations at Zone Seven Police Command, Abuja, Mr Zakari Biu, has been released from detention.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that Biu was released on the orders of President Goodluck Jonathan, following the conclusion of investigations into the escape of Sokoto from a team of police officers detailed by Biu to search Sokoto’s house in Abaji, for documents relating to the activities of the Boko Haram sect.

On his release to the police authorities from the Guard’s Brigade detention facility where he had spent the last nine months, Nigerian Tribune gathered that
the officer told a few sympathisers that former Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Ringim, sacrificed him because he wanted tenure extension.

Nigerian Tribune saw Zakari Biu in the office of the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Peter Gana, on Tuesday, waiting for the next directive on his release.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that for the period Biu was in detention, neither his wife nor children were allowed to see him, while his house, located in Jos, Plateau State capital, was vandalised during one of the crises in the town