Dennis Amachree, a former Assistant Director with the Department of State Services (DSS), says the secret police warned the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma and the state police command of multiple times of upcoming attacks they failed to act on the intelligence information until the attacks were carried out on Monday.
The former DSS Assistant Director disclosed this on Thursday on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme.
According to him, the DSS had passed intelligence to the police on the possibility of the attacks but the warning was discarded by the Police authorities in the state.
He said: “There was enough intelligence, enough actionable intelligence. Actionable in the sense that it allows for space for people to execute it; one week ahead of the event and of course 72 hours before the event and then 48 hours before the event.
“So, three times, the Nigeria Police Force was informed by the DSS that this is going to happen because some suspects that are being geolocated around the area were found surveilling the prisons and the police headquarters but you know in our lackadaisical way, when the intelligence came, they threw it by the side and when something happens, everybody runs around.”
Amachree chided the Governor and the Police, saying some people are too lazy to do their jobs.
“All security reports are shared with the governor in a state first, then, it is shared with other sister agencies like the police, the military, if there are military installations there, all of them got this particular report. So, the governor is very much aware,” he said.
“Apparently nothing was done (to forestall the attacks). You can see that the governor was referring to that particular report that it is not IPOB (Indigenous People of Biafra).”
“Some people are just too lazy to do their jobs,” Amachree lamented.
