Lasun Alagbe
President Muhammadu Buhari asked nothing less than nine questions on Wednesday, as he visited the Kuje Prison, Abuja, following Tuesday’s attack on it by the Boko Haram.
The terrorists practically demystified the security architecture in the facility – and around it – as they operated for at least 30 minutes, bombing and shooting.
They succeeded in freeing all their members in captivity, with some 600 inmates generally escaping.
It was an angry and disappointed Buhari who thus fired the question.
Phenomenal.com.ng counted the posers and they are up to nine.
He said:
“I am disappointed with the intelligence system. How can terrorists organize, have weapons, attack a security installation and get away with it?”
The president, who, like most Nigerians was shocked by both the scale and audacity of the attack queried:
“How did the defences at the prison fail to prevent the attack? How many inmates were in the facility? How many of them can you account for? How many personnel did you have on duty? How many of them were armed? Were there guards on the watchtower? What did they do? Does the CCTV work?” Question after question.
The president, who was on his way to Senegal, was also informed that the security forces had recaptured 350 of the escapees while about 450 others are still unaccounted for, and that rapid work is under way to recapture the rest.
Buhari, accompanied by Boss Mustapha, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, the Chief of Staff, said at the end of the visit that he was expecting “a comprehensive report” on the incident.
