The Deputy Speaker House of Representatives, Ahmed Idris Wase, on Tuesday, disclosed that the Department of State Services (DSS) presented 44 security reports before the Kuje Prison attack in Abuja.
Terrorists invaded Kuje Prison and freed over 800 suspects, including all the Boko Haram members in detention on July 5, 2022.
Wase made the disclosure while contributing to a proposed motion by Abubakar Makki Yelleman (APC Jigawa) at the plenary to halt the planned ban on the use of Motorcycles across the nation by the federal government.
“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 of 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, he said.
“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.
In his motion, Yallemen had 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”.
According to him, the ban “will inflict untold hardships on the generality of Nigerians as it is a common means of transportation among the citizenry, and may provide the terrorists with a pool of desperate youths to recruit”.
He, however, stepped down the motion after Wase advised that the ban is aimed at tackling insecurity.
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