Imo Attack: We warned the Governor and the Police three times before attack – DSS

A former Assistant Director of the Department of State Services, Dennis Amachree, has said the secret agency warned the Nigeria Police Force and Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, at least three times before Monday attacks in the state, but they apparently did nothing to stop the attack.

The former director revealed this while speaking on Thursday on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily program.

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 insisted that the Governor was aware of the incoming attacks on the prison facility and the police headquarters in the state, but did nothing to forestall the attacks

“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 is military installations there, all of them got this particular report. So, the governor is very much aware.”

“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),” he said.

Amachree lamented, “Some people are just too lazy to do their jobs.”

He also blasted the former Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, noting that he doesn’t have his fact right before concluding that members of IPOB carried out the attacks.

“He (Adamu) doesn’t have his fact right because I don’t see how he can identify them. You identify people by either arresting some of them or from what they say but there was no person that was arrested,” the ex-DSS director said, adding that the DSS was investigating the attacks and would identify who the attackers were.