Tobi Adebayo
A former Assistant Director with the Department of State Services, Dennis Amachree has accused Governor of Imo state, Hope Uzodinma of doing nothing to forestall attacks on the Owerri Correctional Facility and Imo Police Headquarters.
Amachree made the accusation while speaking on Thursday during a Channels Televison programme, Sunrise Daily.
He stated that the governor and security operatives in the state were given “actionable intelligence” prior before the Monday attacks.
“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.
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“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.
“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, governor Uzodinma is very much aware,” he said.
