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Kuje Prison Attack: “There is Insider Conspiracy” – Senate President, Lawan opens up

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said that Tuesday’s attack on the Kuje Medium Security Custodial Centre by terrorists speaks volumes about the failure of the country’s security architecture.

Lawan stated this on Thursday when he led a delegation of the leadership of the Senate to assess the level of attack on the correctional facility by insurgents.

Lawmakers on the Senate delegation, which also had some of the Committee on National Security and Intelligence, were conducted around the facility by the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Haliru Nababa.

According to the Senate President, an attack on the Kuje Medium Security Custodial Centre, could only have been possible with the collaboration of insiders within the nation’s correctional system.

He faulted the Nigerian Correctional Service for not providing Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) at the Kuje correctional facility and others across the country.

The Senate President asked the Comptroller General of the NCS to include a request for the provision of CCTV across maximum and medium correctional centers across the country in its 2023 budget proposal to the National Assembly for approval.

Speaking after an assessment of the correctional facility, Lawan said, “the attack on this correctional facility is symptomatic of the failure of security failure. The attack is only a culmination of the failure.

“We were told that an estimated 300 terrorists attacked this facility. They came on foot, and I believe they should have been detected.

“In the first place, three hundred people will not come for an operation like this without planning. Planning must have taken a week, a month or a bit more.

“I believe that our security agencies should have picked this from their tracking systems in the FCT.

“Secondly, having gone round the facility itself, we are disappointed that this facility does not have Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras, something that would record and give you details of what is happening and sometimes record the events.

“This is a medium security custodial center, how on earth in the FCT facility of this magnitude we don’t have CCTV? It means we can say that all other medium security centers across the country do not have CCTV.

“We have asked the Comptroller General of Correctional Centre to ensure that the request for CCTV at the maximum and medium custodial centres of the country are included in their 2023 budget because this is essential and indispensable.

“Now, as this facility lacks a functional CCTV, there’s no record of what happened, except narration. But if we had CCTV, at least the records would have been there and analysis made, and arrest will be based on the information from the CCTV.

“Thirdly, going from one cell to another to release people, specifically, those that are known to be insurgents, tells a lot of story.

“It may not be far away from an insider job, someone who is either working in this place or must have worked here.

“I think we have to look deeper into what happened, so that we find the culprits, because when things like this happens, then there should be sanctions.

“Where people fail to do their job properly, and they have been given that responsibility, they should be asked to take responsibility.

“If people don’t take responsibility for their failure, then it means nobody would bother to do what is expected of their office or the job that the person has been given.

“Having this kind of situation today in the FCT, that we have criminals who are free now all over the city is very dangerous and you can never have peace of mind.

“The FCT has the seat of government, and today that seat is not safe. So, we have to do whatever it takes to get everybody back.”

Lawan, therefore, tasked the security agencies to ensure that the insurgents who escaped from the Kuje medium security custodial center are found and brought back.

Briefing the lawmakers earlier, the Commanding Officer of the Nigerian Army Battalion in Gwagwalada, Lieutenant Colonel Adisa, told the Senate Leadership that over three hundred insurgents were behind Tuesday’s attack on the Kuje medium security custodial facility.

According to him, only a total of fifty security personnel were on ground when the terrorists armed with IEDs stormed the facility to release the insurgents.

https://politicsnigeria.com/kuje-prison-attack-there-is-insider-conspiracy-senate-president-lawan-opens-up/

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I doubt if anybody would read that cos i didn't.

What he should be talking about is the function of the senate and what the senate has done to improve Nigeria since he became president.

P.s if you read the whole thing kindly drop "key points "

So what?

Speaking is not enough. You should act.

You people are talking because it happened in Abuja,what about all the killings across Nigeria.

Medicine after death .




The government of Nigeria are the bandits of

Nigeria .

Speaking grammar as if he's not aware of the security lapses we are facing as a country and the inability to stem the tide under the istration he's part of. Operation of that magnitude shows the terrorists are more sophisticated with an insiders to carry out such attack.

So Lawan get Live information for hand wey the Security agency no get.....

Such a debacle.
Nigeria can never grow this way with people of diverse interests and selfish ambitions. Nothing like a sense of nationhood and patriotism

I cannot accept that Kuje Prison doesn’t have CCTV when ordinary Mama Put Buka has CCTV

Even MC Oluomo’s Agbero boys would have done a far better Job of securing Kuje Prison

so you have prison without ordinary cctv??

Yet Emi lo kan can roll with 2 bullion vans inside his house on election

Ganduje can stuff his agbada full with dollars until it is obese

another ediot can cart away 80 billion

then they will now make it seem as if Nigerias problems cant be solved.

How much is ordinary camera? let me go and check on Amazon.


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See cctv on Amazon for 259 dollars for 8 cameras, yet a whole prison doesn;t have it, even your local police station doesn't have it.

Black people are just, I dont even know.

Black man, and black hearts it seems.

The black man really really hates development.

The Presidency was even shocked about the failure of the presidency.

Everyone knows about this but who will say it out. Am even surprise my own darling agency the DSS could not give a hint on the coming attacks....
May God help nigeria

The government of Nigeria is the terrorist of this nation

The government of Nigeria is the terrorist of this nation.

Do you mean no CCTV cameras, not even one is situated within the prison premises.

Comon on, this is gameplay by government people and terrorist groups.

I want to give security agencies the first clue, that person who said the terrorist took the money the in mates ate saving is a culprit, he should be interrogated

It is a script planned by the Federal government. They think it will be embarrassing if they it to agreeing to the demands of the terrorists by releasing the prisoners so they can free the kidnapped victims of the train attack. So they told the terrorists to go and break the prison so it will look like a prison break. Their mumu didn't tell them it will still look like an embarrassment to FG.

How do you know FG planned it with the terrorists?

No one has been sacked

Yimu

They are coming to kidnap all of you in that Senate one day.
When all of you failed to tackle youth unemployment but u are living large on National resources, wasting it on useless ambitions... inflation on rise, no job, no food, expensive healthcare, high school fees....even if those guys die trying, it's better than not.

Give us his name.

We are aware of that already.... The question is what are you people going to do about it now?

"There is Insider Aso Rock Conspiracy".

government of the bandits,by the bandits and for bandits,
that's the true definition of Nigeria
make God just they protect we the minority wey no belong to the bandits family and religion

Totilopussylick:


Medicine after death .




The government of Nigeria are the bandits of

Nigeria .

Campaign after election

So sad.

I thought the destruction of police stations by thugs during the ENDSARS protest will enable them do the needful but it instead makes the authorities more stupid in their approach.

Few correctional centres have in Ghana that don't have Boko Haram have CCTV while more than 400 police stations have cctv but our government that is overwhelmed by banditry kidnapping terrorism think it's not important. They have not yet realized that criminals are now more refined in their approach.
Ordinary Iya shade have CCTV in her provision store but I still don't understand why government can't afford it

Not breaking news.

Lawan should gerrout