APC says faulty intelligence stifles terror war

The All Progressives Congress has said faulty intelligence,
which has so far stifled the fight against Boko Haram,
was the same which led to the raid of the party’s data
centre in Lagos.
The APC also challenged the Department of State
Service to tell the Nigerian public what it found after
invading its data centre in Lagos.
This was contained in a statement signed by its National
Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in Abuja, on
Monday.
According to the party, Nigerians deserve to know the
outcome of investigations into “the cooked-up allegation” of
PVC cloning that forced the DSS to unlawfully invade
the party’s offices in Lagos over a week ago.
The party said, “It is this type of faulty intelligence that
has been stifling the efforts to deconstruct Boko Haram
and facilitate the battle to end the insurgency that is daily
killing and maiming innocent Nigerians.”
It also said the DSS should apologise to Nigerians for
acting on the basis of faulty intelligence.
The party warned that any further delay in telling
Nigerians the outcome of the investigations after almost 10
days could mean that the DSS was trying to manufacture
evidence to support its faulty intelligence.
APC said, “Without carrying out any investigation and
with no shred of evidence, the DSS gleefully announced
to the world that they stormed our data centre because
they got information that Permanent Voter Cards were
being cloned there.
“On the basis of this uncorroborated announcement, the
PDP categorically accused the APC of cloning PVCs.
It is now over a week since the DSS carted away
materials and computer servers after ransacking our offices
for over two hours. The agency’s experts must have
analysed the information in the materials and on the
servers.”
The party demanded that the security agency should
immediately announce its findings to the world.
“After all, it took them only a few hours after their
Gestapo-like invasion of our offices before they issued
their baseless allegation of PVC cloning to justify their
action,” APC said.
The party equally announced that while it had gone to
court to seek redress, the DSS still owed Nigerians an
explanation and, if indeed no evidence of card cloning was
found, an unreserved apology.
It charged the DSS to always be professional and fair in
carrying out its duties instead of relying on beer parlour
gossips as useful intelligence.