I confess that I was not surprised that President Muhammadu Buhari was unaware that bandits terrorists had threatened to kidnap him, our commander-in-chief of the armed forces, until Governor Nasir El-Rufai, also under the same threat, went to Aso Rock to tell him. rage of Nigerians over how a ragtag group of terrorist bandits dare to threaten our president n never reached his ears. I wondered what the President was talking about after dinner with his friends and peers. My friends would have said hey buddy, do you know the whole country is talking about the threat to your life. What's the best survival strategy to adopt as they seek to do better by taking over the Kuje Prisons and attempting the Aso Rock Fortress?
Of course, I am aware that on a formal level, the president's office would have received numerous memos on various security threats affecting the country in addition to the direct threat to him. Memos are written but the problem, as we saw a few years ago in the case of President Trump in the United States, not all presidents are diligent in reading their memos. It is perhaps in anticipation of this that there are, in addition to memos, an audience granted to security to verbally brief the President.
Following the commando attack on Kuje Correctional Center on July 5, 2022 which led to the release of 66 terrorists and hundreds of bandits and criminals, I saw President Buhari on television asking very lucid and incisive about the security flaws that led to the embarrassment. He blasted the intelligence failures and lack of security preparedness that led to the attack and called for a more grounded approach to security provisioning. Our President was there, he saw the situation himself, made an assessment on the spot and called for corrective action.
This week, however, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ahmed Idris Wase, disclosed to Nigerians that the Department of State Services (DSS) had prepared and submitted 44 security reports prior to the attack on Kuje prison in Abuja. He revealed this while contributing to a proposed motion to end the federal government's planned nationwide ban on motorcycle use. His message was sobering. That he had read all the reports and that there were no intelligence gaps as the services had fully informed the political leadership of what was planned, but no action had been taken. In other words, the memos were complete, they had been delivered, and either the right people hadn't read them or they had decided not to act on them. The President should not have waited for the attack to happen as he was told it was imminent, he should have taken proactive measures in good time. That's why he's Commander-in-Chief.
Vice President Wase's words should speak to us: "There is no community that one attack or the other is happening and we will not have information, and that is part of the information that 'they have data on what is going to happen, what is happening and what is not going to happen.' If there is reliable information that is continually being provided and no action is taken, there are areas in which we must look to understand the failures Proactive measures of political leaders and will of the operational organs of the security n...
I confess that I was not surprised that President Muhammadu Buhari was unaware that bandits terrorists had threatened to kidnap him, our commander-in-chief of the armed forces, until Governor Nasir El-Rufai, also under the same threat, went to Aso Rock to tell him. rage of Nigerians over how a ragtag group of terrorist bandits dare to threaten our president n never reached his ears. I wondered what the President was talking about after dinner with his friends and peers. My friends would have said hey buddy, do you know the whole country is talking about the threat to your life. What's the best survival strategy to adopt as they seek to do better by taking over the Kuje Prisons and attempting the Aso Rock Fortress?
Of course, I am aware that on a formal level, the president's office would have received numerous memos on various security threats affecting the country in addition to the direct threat to him. Memos are written but the problem, as we saw a few years ago in the case of President Trump in the United States, not all presidents are diligent in reading their memos. It is perhaps in anticipation of this that there are, in addition to memos, an audience granted to security to verbally brief the President.
Following the commando attack on Kuje Correctional Center on July 5, 2022 which led to the release of 66 terrorists and hundreds of bandits and criminals, I saw President Buhari on television asking very lucid and incisive about the security flaws that led to the embarrassment. He blasted the intelligence failures and lack of security preparedness that led to the attack and called for a more grounded approach to security provisioning. Our President was there, he saw the situation himself, made an assessment on the spot and called for corrective action.
This week, however, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ahmed Idris Wase, disclosed to Nigerians that the Department of State Services (DSS) had prepared and submitted 44 security reports prior to the attack on Kuje prison in Abuja. He revealed this while contributing to a proposed motion to end the federal government's planned nationwide ban on motorcycle use. His message was sobering. That he had read all the reports and that there were no intelligence gaps as the services had fully informed the political leadership of what was planned, but no action had been taken. In other words, the memos were complete, they had been delivered, and either the right people hadn't read them or they had decided not to act on them. The President should not have waited for the attack to happen as he was told it was imminent, he should have taken proactive measures in good time. That's why he's Commander-in-Chief.
Vice President Wase's words should speak to us: "There is no community that one attack or the other is happening and we will not have information, and that is part of the information that 'they have data on what is going to happen, what is happening and what is not going to happen.' If there is reliable information that is continually being provided and no action is taken, there are areas in which we must look to understand the failures Proactive measures of political leaders and will of the operational organs of the security n...
President Muhammadu Buhari
