Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari says he is disappointed in the country’s intelligence system following the terrorist attack at the Kuje prison in Abuja.
Terrorists had stormed the medium-security prison on Tuesday night with high explosives and successfully released their co-conspirators along with over 600 other inmates.
A casualty has been recorded on the part of the security operatives while four dead bodies of escaped inmates were later accounted for.
Buhari condemned the attack after his visit to the scene on Wednesday. He questioned the competence of Nigeria’s security operatives.
The president, who departed for Dakar, Senegal, shortly after his visit, expressed shock at the courage of the attackers and raised questions about the ease at which the operation of non-state actors scaled through.
In a statement signed by his spokesperson, Garba Shehu, on Wednesday, Mr Buhari called for a comprehensive report on the shocking development.
“How did the defences at the prison fail to prevent the attack? How many inmates were in the facility? How many of them can you account for? How many personnel did you have on duty? How many of them were armed? Were there guards on the watchtower? What did they do? Does the CCTV work?
“I am disappointed with the intelligence system. How can terrorists organise, have weapons, attack a security installation and get away with it?” the president inquired.
