Obinna Akukwe @Obinna Akukwe
President Muhammadu Buhari has come
under intense pressure from various security
top brass to disband the Department of State
Services (DSS), Nigerian Secret Police. This
is due to the alleged infamous role the once
prestigious institution played in futile attempt
to truncate democracy.
Top security sources who spoke to the
leadership of Igbo Mandate Congress (IMC)
on conditions of anonymity said that there
are four groups that want the DSS to be
overhauled. The first group believes that the
DSS should be disbanded out rightly and its
operatives absorbed into the Nigerian Police
Force, if they so wish.
The second group wants the DSS to be
another department within the Nigerian Army,
complementing the DMI, just as the Road
Safety (FRSC) was forced to be under the
Nigerian Police for a while before public
outcry delivered them.
The third pressure group believes that
President Buhari should sideline and render
them redundant, starved of funds and made
irrelevant while the fourth group wants a
complete overhaul of the leadership of the
body, and the sack of about forty officers
identified as acting in manners inimical to
the security of the nation.
Reeling out the sins of the DSS, the security
sources told the leadership of Igbo Mandate
Congress (IMC) that the DSS has a hand in
the failed attempt to assassinate President
Buhari last year. Other alleged misconduct of
the DSS include:
1. Conniving with agents of terrorism by
withholding sensitive information that there
is a plot assassinate Muhammadu Buhari
while the later was on his way from Abuja to
Katsina, an event that led to the death of
over 100 Nigerians in Kawo Area of Kaduna
State in July, 2014
2. Conniving with agents of terrorism to
withhold information that there is an attempt
to checkmate the excesses of the Emir of
Kano, HRH Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, by
allowing agents of terrorism to attack Kano
Central Mosque in November, 2014, leading
to death of over 200 persons
3. Bugging all the telephones lines , email and
spying on prominent opposition leaders
especially Muhammadu Buhari, Bola Tinubu,
Rotimi Amechi, Rabiu Kwqakwanso, Nasir El
Rufai among others and using the
information so obtained as instruments of
political blackmail.
4 Labelling Muhammadu Buhari and leaders
of the opposition All Progressive Congress
(APC) as sponsors of Boko Haram while
intelligence sources proves contrary.
5 Deploying operatives in Anambra State to
ensure that the APC Gubernatorial candidate ,
Dr Chris Ngige, was rigged out by ensuring
that election materials never reached the
strongholds of the former governor, thereby
denying the APC a strong foothold in South
East
6. Deploying operatives of the DSS to help
the PDP rig out Governor Fayemi of Ekiti
State, thereby denying the APC another
victory at the polls
7. Deploying the same apparatus in Osun
State, an act vehemently resisted by the
masses.. Deploying masked security men
round the capital of Osun State in such a
manner that portrayed them as terrorists.
8. Making spurious claims that the
opposition APC has hacked into INEC date
base, a claim the electoral umpire disclaimed.
Based on such spurious claims, raiding the
Lagos State Headquarters of the APC and
carting away confidential files, all in an
attempt to blackmail and intimidate the
opposition.
9. Detaining the contractor who printed the
PVC Card Reader without due process, until
days after the elections were over
10. Producing, through the unethical release
of classified information, documentaries
meant to tarnish the image of Muhammadu
Buhari and Bola Tinubu and causing such to
be aired on electronic media.
11. Stripping naked and forcing Pastor Musa
Dikwa to write a letter of apology to leader of
the Christian Association of Nigeria
(CAN), ,Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, for claiming
that some pastors were given N7 billion naira
to initiate hate campaigns against the person
of Muhammadu Buhari.
12 Initiating, suggesting, contacting and
making plans to truncate democracy in the
event of a Buhari victory at the polls by
making arrangements and contacts for a
possible Interim Government.
13. Making contingency plans that in case
the interim government option sails through,
those marked as strong resistance to be
eliminated by the strike force.
14 Giving undue security covering to Senator
Ali Modu Sheriff, known Boko Haram Sponsor
Therefore, a highly disappointed Buhari was
said not to be disposed to working with a
set of people who are brazen in their attempt
to truncate democracy, when they are
established to protect the state. That was
why he rejected a recent attempt to post
about 234 operatives to the Villa, and also
rejected attempts to post a new person to
him as the CSO. The DSS have also not been
privy to sensitive security briefings since
Buhari was sworn in.
Igbo Mandate Congress cannot verify the
veracity of these information and the
culpability of the DSS as alleged, however,
contacts and friends of the group, especially
in Kano, Abuja, Borno , Yobe, Bauchi, Jigawa,
Sokoto, Kaduna States and some parts of the
north have from time to time, especially at
the peak of Boko Haram attacks shared
intelligence with agents of the DSS and their
response has been proactive.
During the spates of bombings in Igbo
dominated Sabon Gari and other parts of
Kano, IMC coordinators received and released
intelligence information to relevant DSS
quarters either directly or through concerned
prominent citizens,and their responses
helped to stem the tide of terrorism in Kano
and some parts of the north.
IMC is aware of the professional role DSS
played in snuffing terrorism out of Abuja,
Kogi, Kaduna and forestalling possible
spillovers in the South East and South West
States. The arrest of kabiru Sokoto, Abu
Qaqa and other leaders of Boko Haram at the
earlier stages are due to their professional
dexterity
However, IMC recalled that at the peak of
planned invasion of Borno by the insurgents
earlier in the year, one of their coordinators
made contacts with a top government
official to obtain permission to mobilize few
thousand Igbo Youth to join their northern
volunteers and hunters to fight the terrorists.
This topmost government official, who sees
former President Jonathan on a daily basis,
after audience with the then President, asked
our coordinator to work with ex Governor Ali
Modu Sheriff.
IMC believes that Ali Modu Sheriff is a
sponsor of Boko Haram and will not have
anything to do with him, and therefore
discontinued with the discussion. However,
on inquiry at why a Boko Haram founder will
be asked to work with volunteers, IMC were
told that the DSS security reports exonerated
him of such allegations.
IMC believes that the DSS was able to show
rare professionalism in some aspects of its
war against Boko Haram, and as such does
not deserve outright disbandment and these
views were disseminated to the complaining
security quarters. However, IMC is aware
that the DSS was unduly sympathetic to a
continuation of the President Jonathan
regime, which is divergent from the views
of IMC, which prefers and supported a
change of guard.
Igbo Mandate Congress, known worldwide
as a stakeholder in the ‘Change’ being
celebrated in Nigeria today, participated in
ensuring that Igbos in the North rejected
some directives from some Ohanaeze and
compromised Igbo leaders to vote for the
expired “Transformational Agenda” .
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The Director General of Igbo Mandate
Congress, Rev Obinna Akukwe condemned
publicly the assassination attempt on Buhari
and fingered those he termed as ‘PDP Boko
Haram Members’ as being behind the plot to
kill the then opposition leader and plunge
Nigeria into another civil war. However, it
does not have information of the culpability
of the DSS in the event.

Buhari shld calm down and make decisions, not dat after making one decision, he reverses it
#baba reversal






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OREMUSSANCTUS:

hmm..Oremussanctus, my friend. Don't you think its too early to be stealing pple's land?

The Bad feeling Buhari has got about DSS should be blamed on the DSS(Marilyn Oga and co). They misplaced professionalism on politics. Under GEJ's leadership, you ll agree with with me that the DSS was even worse than the Nigerian police. #blameMarilynOga

Good riddance to the turncoats
Bloody Gestapos

My pocket my concern Certified ebira boy...

Noted!!!

All the allegations are very correct,it was all over news papers we dont need to verify again
they should go to hell,agent of darkness
Next time if there is one they will think twice before supporting an incumbent president

No sauce?

Oh please! DSS this, DSS that under this dura born's regime! Like locking and sending them out of national security meetings isn't bad and shameful enough?? Whoever wants to hang a dog must first give it a bad name! So all these excuses that they did all these are stories.
It is a well known fact that the dura born has "beef" with agencies, regions, people , corporations (Ait) and government bodies that were perceived to be against his presidential bid and up till now the man has held serious grudges against these establishments et al! The army is not even left out, hence why they seem to be redundant despite boko attacks in the north on daily basis.
Instead of working with the army and DSS to solve security issues, the dura born saw it fit to sublet this job to chad and Niger hence the $21 million donated to them some weeks ago all because of his ego and high horse attitude.

I think this man is acting like a "child" to be honest! Why not just move ahead and attend to more critical issues of governance than witch hunting perceived enemies that spoke the truth about your ugly and shameful past?
Such a man with a heart of stone is likely to sell the south-south to aliens for not voting him if care is not taken.

On this note the south-south should be wary about the "Trojan horse gift" named nuclear power plants which might be disguised as future gas chambers to the southern people as he feels GEJ has killed his brothers (boko) over the years of fighting terrorism. Let him with eyes see! And those with ears hear!

OREMUSSANCTUS:

However hard you think before writing , your contribution still remain the same.

Mogidi:
Hmmm

Keep thinking ......

Hmmm

#13 OBJ Wesley Snipes

the scumbag Dss's spokesperson accused APC of trying to hack INEC's database that was not connected to internet. what an unprofessional conduct could that be!!