DSS Speaks On Abducting Residents For Ransom

The Division of State Service (DSS) has refuted media reviews that it’s concerned in kidnapping harmless residents for ransom.

In a press release on Wednesday, DSS Spokesman, Peter Afunanya, mentioned it doesn’t abduct Nigerians underneath the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The key police spokesman described the reviews that it’s concerned in abducting residents as false, mischievous and deceptive.

He burdened that the company has by no means arrested anybody with out following the required procedures and solely arrests individuals when mandatory.

Afunanya identified that the company is law-abiding and dedicated to the safety of residents and delicate authorities installations

The assertion reads: “The DSS is law-abiding and dedicated to the safety of residents and delicate authorities installations.

“In doing this, it’s going to proceed to discharge its mandate of intelligence assortment and well timed dissemination of similar to related motion businesses and stakeholders. Their steady mischievous resolve to make use of pretend information and hate speech to set the nation on hearth is condemnable.

“Media practitioners within the nation ought to rise above parochial concerns, sanitise its fold and fish out quacks amongst them. The media may also peer overview and embark on self-censorship as a part of attaining professionalism within the business.

“They have to reject the attract of enticement by exterior forces to make use of them to instigate violence or undermine the federal government and its establishments.

“In any other case, those that run foul of the legislation should be able to face justice both now or sooner or later.”