From Ndubuisi Orji
House of Representatives has said a total of 44 reports were given by the Department of State Services ( DSS) before the attack on Kuje Custodial Centre by suspected terrorists on July 5.
The deputy speaker, Idris Wase, stated at yesterday’s plenary, while commenting on a motion by Abubakar Makki Yallemen, urging the House to halt the proposed plan by the federal government to ban the use of motor cycles in the country.
Wase, who presided over Tuesday’s plenary, urged the sponsor of the motion, to step it down, noting that the House needs to support the executive arm of government in tackling the security challenges in the country.
Yallemen was still reading his motion, when the majority leader, Alhassan Ado-Doguwa and the minority leader, Ndudi Elumelu quickly moved to chair to confer with the deputy speaker. When the former finished reading his motion, Wase invited him to approach the chair.
Yallemen, in his motion, had contended that though the proposed ban on the use of motorcycles nationwide is intended to cut the ” the supply of logistics to the terrorists in the country as disclosed by the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami” recently, the government is yet to offer palliative measures to those, who it as legitimate means of livelihood.
However, Wase said “You cannot 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 confirm to you, 44. I read 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 don’t have an Intel. And this is part of the Intel. “So, we have to cooperate with government. Thank you very much. I have to beg my colleague that we step down the motion.”