The Department of State Services (DSS) shared 44 intelligence reports before the attack on the Kuje Prison Abuja by terrorists.
This was disclosed by the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Idris Wase during the plenary on Tuesday.
He was speaking on a motion sponsored by Abubakar Yallemen (APC, Jigawa) on the need to stop the nationwide planned ban on commercial motorcycles by the federal government.
The deputy speaker said though the ban on commercial motorcycles will affect transportation systems in local areas, it is necessary to check insecurity.
Mr Wase said, “For most of us — 90 percent of my community if not 99 percent — this is the only means of transportation.
“We appreciate his motion and sensibility, but in line with our principle to help in curbing the incessant insecurity in our country, we have to cooperate with the government.
“You cannot imagine what is happening today in Abuja. I’ll confirm to you that I went through the DSS report — 44 reports were given before the attack on Kuje.
“I want to say so. I want to confirm to you — 44. I read through all the reports and it all has to do with this.
“There is no community that one attack or the other will happen that you will not have intel, and this is part of the intel that they had given as to what is exactly going to happen. So, we have to cooperate with the government.”
Mr Yallemen, in his motion, said the proposed ban on motorcycle operations “will render millions of Nigerians jobless, which could be catastrophic for a nation grappling with high unemployment and poverty rates.”
21st CENTURY CHRONICLE reports that on July 5, Boko Haram fighters believed to be Kaduna train attackers, stormed Kuje Prison in Abuja, freeing 879 inmates, including 69 terrorists in its custody.
The Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) said 443 of the fleeing inmates have been recaptured, 551 were still at large; while four inmates and one Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) official were killed.
