The Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Alhaji Ahmed Idris Wase, had on Tuesday, disclosed that the Department of State Services (DSS) processed and forwarded to the appropriate quarters, 44 security alerts before the Kuje Prison attack in Abuja.
On July 5, 2022, terrorists led by the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) overran the Kuje Correctional Facility in a show of brigandage, released over 800 suspects, including all the Boko Haram/ISWAP/Ansaru members in detention, and also substantially damaged the facility.
Speaking while contributing to a proposed motion to halt the planned ban on the use of Motorcycles across the country being proposed by the federal government, which was presented by Abubakar Makki Yelleman (APC Jigawa), Alhaji Wase said: “You can imagine what is happening today in Abuja.
“I will be frank with you. I went through DSS reports. 44 reports were given before the attack at Kuje. I want to say so, I want to confirm to you, 44. I went through all the reports. And it all has to do with this.
“There is no community that one attack or the other will happen and we will not have an intel, and this is part of the intel that, they have given as what is going happen, what is happening and what is not going to happen”.
Wase however said, government should be supported to implement such moves in vulnerable communities where the ban could check banditry, terrorism and other criminalities.
