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SmartyPants:
There is no direct equivalent of the DSS in the US. What the DSS does here is more of a combination of what the FBI do and the Secret Service. A perfect comparison is DSS plus EFCC equals FBI plus Secret Service.

You're right, no direct equivalent but the closest is the SS.
Both the SS and DSS don't handle prosecution, FBI does.

fergie001:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16rb7Gjbmi/


https://x.com/YeleSowore/status/1968013590927180286?t=UupfPR-4ns8dG1g-wXALHQ&s=19


https://x.com/YeleSowore/status/1967907929706652111?t=8llwnPWbAz-3PPhc3z3LBQ&s=19

Previous Thread:
https://www.nairaland.com/8520324/dss-files-criminal-charges-against#136817929

Omoyele talks way too much tbh while making highly IRRESPONSIBLE and defamatory comments in addition to spreading disinformation via his once reputable online publication.

Second, during the Obama Presidency, a teenager living right in the United Kingdom sent email threats to Barack Obama's email and the United States Intelligence agencies immediately contacted the British Intelligence agencies and that rascally teenage boy was tracked and picked up for questioning.

YOU don't go about making highly incendiary comments online and offline, against any President or world leader as that is a major sign of a potential threat to his OR her life. This is why Intelligence agencies worldwide don't take these kinds of comments lightly. In France, a guy hit the French President in public and was sent to jail. There is NO ABSOLUTE freedom of speech to DEFAME others anywhere and ignorance of the law is NO excuse. NOBODY has a right to openly defame people like this dude called Omoyele Sowere regularly does and he started this narcissistic habit of defaming others around the year 2019. I STRONGLY suspect he has some deep psychological issues and many lemmings are right here on NL threads IRRESPONSIBLY clapping for him and cheering him on. He has to prove everything he says otherwise he MUST be ready to face justice. Period.

lexy2014:
how is the US secret service equivalent to DSS?

Try dey learn guys, ehn!!
Google search and AI dey there.

Abeg

#TinubuIsACriminal

Mrexcell:
What's even giving this guy mind sef is it because he is also a yoruba man like tinibu?

the man us actually say the truth. Actually, everyone known Tinubu as a criminal and is quite funny and shameful DSS is harassing Sowere over is comment about Tinubu criminality.

Racoon:
The DSS is supposed to be unheard of, akin to the American CIA, Israel - Mossad or the Russian KGB. However, this arm of government has metamorphosed to an organ of state oppression, repression and suppression. This is too bad.

DSS is equivalent of America's FBI or Israeli Shin Bet. They take charge of domestic intelligence gathering. In other words, internal spy agencies. CIA is equivalent of Nigeria s National Intelligence Agency (NIA) like the Israeli MOSSAD which gather intelligence against external threats to their countries. In other words, they are external spy agencies.

Konquest:
Omoyele talks way too much tbh while making highly IRRESPONSIBLE and defamatory comments in addition to spreading disinformation via his once reputable online publication.

Second, during the Obama Presidency, a teenager living room right in the United Kingdom sent email threats to Barack Obama's email and the United States Intelligence agencies immediately contacted the British Intelligence agencies and that rascally teenage boy was tracked and picked up for questioning.

YOU don't go about making highly incendiary comments online and offline, against any President or world leader as that is a major sign of a potential threat to his OR her life. This is why Intelligence agencies worldwide don't take these kinds of comments lightly. In France, a guy hit the French President in public and was sent to jail. There is NO ABSOLUTE freedom of speech to DEFAME others anywhere and ignorance of the law is NO excuse. NOBODY has a right to openly defame people like this dude called Omoyele Sowere regularly does and he started this narcissistic habit of defaming others around the year 2019. I STRONGLY suspect he has some deep psychological issues and many lemmings are right here on NL threads IRRESPONSIBLY clapping for him and cheering him on. He has to prove everything he says otherwise he MUST be ready to face justice. Period.

Oga, how many times Dss invite Tinubu wen he was calling Jonathan names and even claimed Jonathan is dead? Obviously u saw the mock coffin of Jonathan he was carrying about?. See i don't have time

Konquest:
Get your FACTS right. Don't spread disinformation based on sensational magazine headlines.

In reality, the iconic Chief Gani Fawehimmi, SAN, later recanted after seeing more evidence on Tinubu. This is why Festus Keyamo, SAN, (whose father is Urhobo from Delta State and mother is from Ilaro in Ogun State) who ALSO worked with the Gani Fawehimmi Chambers (alongside great legal luminaries such as 'Femi Falana) ALSO changed his views on the then Governor 'Bola Tinubu of Lagos State NOW President 'Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Festus Keyamo doesn't take nonsense and would NOT be serving in the Nigerian President Tinubu's government as a Federal Minister of Aviation if Tinubu is indeed a "criminal." Period.

When exactly did Gani Fawehinmi recant? Was there a press conference, a statement, an affidavit? Or did he recant privately to you alone? Let’s not rewrite history to soothe political guilt. The facts remain: Gani risked everything to challenge Tinubu’s integrity in court, including over the Chicago drug-linked forfeiture. He called Tinubu a criminal. That’s legal history, not tabloid gossip.

Festus Keyamo is not Gani Fawehinmi. Working for Gani is not the same as being Gani. And if anything, Keyamo’s U-turn says more about how power compromises principles than it does about Tinubu’s innocence. Selling your integrity doesn’t mean the product was ever clean, it just means the price was right.

Always full of himself, you definitely don't have sensible person around to advice or guide you right!

Tradman:
Oga, how many times Dss invite Tinubu wen he was calling Jonathan names and even claimed Jonathan is dead? Obviously u saw the mock coffin of Jonathan he was carrying about?. See i don't have time

You are talking to a mature man here who witnessed many global geopolitical events over the decades right from the military years and I sometimes step in to educate and correct disinformation from some largely younger ones here online.

The now President 'Bola Tinubu NEVER did any of the things YOU claimed ABOVE. It was other protesters who carried placards and a mock coffin against GEJ and that had NO direct threat to GEJ. Besides, the PDP members were ALSO relentlessly harassing the opposition party members back from the Obasanjo years as President right to when the GEJ Presidency ended.

There was a major DSS attack (leading to heavy damage to property and injuries to APC people in the year 2013) on the APC Data Center in Ikeja, Lagos State. All the major media outlets had the front-page photographs of the massive destruction to the computers, doors, scattered papers, at the APC Data Center. So, the DSS and thugs were misused severally during the PDP years of Nigerian Presidency.

This is how some uninformed posters are randomly going about on this same NL discussion forum spreading disinformation that the now President 'Bola Ahmed Tinubu worked to remove GEJ from office BUT these ignorant ones have NOW been properly educated with the FACTS and screenshots of Nigerian newspaper publications from 2011 showing CLEARLY that the former President GEJ actually gave a promise to the PDP members, (especially the Northern members of the PDP) that he was NOT going to seek for re-election in 2014, BUT he broke that gentleman's agreement. This is why the so-called Northern PDP members left the PDP to work with the already established APC, leading to his defeat.

fergie001:
Sowore sues Meta, X and SSS


https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17kCJBroZf/

You're fighting? Continue!

Orlandoo:
Whatever happens, Sowore has proven to be a freedom fighter and his legacies will live even after he is no more.

Sowore has to take responsibility for his actions

By now all these security agencies should be tired of Sowore whala ...
We should have people like sowore to give the ruling party a sleepless night

Am enjoying this movie

Ofunaofu:
The DSS is not Tinubu’s PR team or his personal legal counsel. Their job is to protect national security, not the image of one man especially a man who, as you admitted, would need to be investigated with evidence before any action is taken. But Sowore didn’t arrest Tinubu, he spoke via a post on his social media handle. And in a democracy, speech is not a crime just because it makes the president uncomfortable. If Tinubu feels defamed, the courts are open let him sue, like every other citizen.

Weaponizing state security to intimidate critics is not strength, it’s weakness and calling it 'proactive' is just a fancy way of excusing authoritarianism.

When you boldly and publicly call a President a criminal, you should be able to prove it beyond reasonable doubt.

The best place for Sowore to prove it is in a competent ccourt of law. DSS just offered him that opportunity to prove it so he should be bold enough to do that.

This is not weaponization of DSS; it is accountability on the part of the accuser. I am not holding brief for the president, I just want us to be careful with our utterances.

Shawarmagirl:
Reno food don land oo where are you? Come and confront Sowore Nigerians what to check something.

Make he come confront Sowore?.. Sowore wey get bad mouth... He go drag Reno for mud and shatter the small name that the "boy" Reno is managing

Orlandoo:
Whatever happens, Sowore has proven to be a freedom fighter and his legacies will live even after he is no more.

💪🎯

Ofunaofu:
When exactly did Gani Fawehinmi recant? Was there a press conference, a statement, an affidavit? Or did he recant privately to you alone? Let’s not rewrite history to soothe political guilt. The facts remain: Gani risked everything to challenge Tinubu’s integrity in court, including over the Chicago drug-linked forfeiture. He called Tinubu a criminal. That’s legal history, not tabloid gossip.

Festus Keyamo is not Gani Fawehinmi. Working for Gani is not the same as being Gani. And if anything, Keyamo’s U-turn says more about how power compromises principles than it does about Tinubu’s innocence. Selling your integrity doesn’t mean the product was ever clean, it just means the price was right.

There was NO Chicago drug-related forfeiture. You are one of the well-known monikers here who DELIBERATELY and regularly defame and refer to the now President 'Bola Tinubu as a drug*lord like you did earlier on this same thread. For your information, the then Senator 'Bola Tinubu back in 1993 was exonerated by a United States Federal Court of any links to drug crimes. This is why the remaining funds in his 8 United States bank checking accounts totalling over $1 million were refunded to him by the United States in 1993 when many of those criminally defaming him online and offline today were NOT even born or still sucking breast milk! ONLY $460,000 was forfeited and it was in a CIVIL case NOT a CRIMINAL case and more evidence can be gleaned from the link right BELOW.

"Tinubu NOT a Drug Baron. David Hundeyin Lied"
https://www.nairaland.com/7589449/tinubu-not-drug-baron-david


The United States does NOT do "plea bargaining" with known drug barons or drug dealers because it's a heinous crime. If Bola Ahmed Tinubu who worked at a senior level as a distinguished Treasurer and Chartered Accountant with Mobil Nigeria, (now ExxonMobil) was a drug*lord like you and your ilk usually claim FALSELY on this discussion forum out of ignorance, bigotry and resentment, the United States would have kicked him right into jail like they did to the Panamanian Military dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega who was removed from power via a U.S. Military invasion of Panama in December 1989 and he finally surrendered and was brought to justice via a jail term in the United States for being a drug baron. I personally saw live scenes on TV of that U.S. Military invasion back in December 1989 and January 1990. If Tinubu is (or was ever a drug baron), the United States Government would have publicly warned Nigerians and extradited him long ago to the United States. Tinubu has been traveling to the United States in his private jet for years now with his family, yet he has NEVER been arrested by the "US DEA" or other U.S. intelligence agencies contrary to the constant toxic hate, derailing of NL threads and spreading of massive disinformation which paid online trolls of majorly South East of Nigeria origin (who are Peter's Labor Party political supporters) engage in.


NOW, unknown to YOU and others who relentlessly "criminally defame" this man called President Tinubu on NL and elsewhere online, right in 2003, the then Legal Attache of the United States Embassy in Lagos State, Michael Bonner, CLEARLY stated in an official reply to the Nigerian Police investigators which YOU can read in the link BELOW that the then Governor 'Bola Tinubu of Lagos State has NEVER been arrested OR convicted for any crimes commited in the United States based on the information contained in the FBI's National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database which contains the names of ALL those ever arrested on United States' soil. His signed document further emphasized that 'Bola Tinubu has NEVER been arrested and convicted for ANY crimes related to hard drugs in the ENTIRE history of the United States. I will attach the screenshot of the 2003 document here later. This is one of the EVIDENCE and documents Chief Gani Fawehimmi, SAN, saw which made him to slow down on his criticisms of Tinubu before he passed on.



Read the FIRST & THIRD POSTS on the NL thread right BELOW to see the original screenshots and proper information on the United States Embassy Legal Attache Michael Bonner's official document exonerating Tinubu and how Bola Ahmed Tinubu has NEVER been arrested or convicted in the United States.

"Tinubu NOT a Drug Baron. David Hundeyin Lied"
https://www.nairaland.com/7589449/tinubu-not-drug-baron-david

ntyce:
Not true.
CIA, Mossad and KGB are equivalent of our NIA, they deal with external threats.
DSS deals with internal threats.
The USA Secret Service is the equivalent of our DSS.

Why are you guys comparing shadow to reality?

CIA of all organization to D Wetin

And what if que no sera sera?

Kastonkastroll:
NO oga sowore you are wrong on this. The DSS of recent have been very proactive. Most of the successes the military are recording by annihilating bandits and terrorists have the DSS prints on it.


Those guys are trying these days and thats a visible fact!

Trying? I don't think so.

It's a shame the ss deviated from trival security agenda's to become political umpires.

Kastonkastroll:
NO oga sowore you are wrong on this. The DSS of recent have been very proactive. Most of the successes the military are recording by annihilating bandits and terrorists have the DSS prints on it.


Those guys are trying these days and thats a visible fact!

and yet Dan kastina the latest celebrity bandit who murdered up to 50 innocent Nigerians recently including those doing their peaceful prayers at a mosque is about to receive his reward by your goverment in a peace deal and there are videos of them hanging live amunitions around their neck wearing camo and treating to unleash hell of disturbed ...continue to deceive yourself that your dss is working ...they are all tools of the current presidency and not there for the nation

Exceed15:
DSS has become like ordinary Nigeria police. No honour anymore.

Do they really deserved to be honoured? Honoured as per what?

Racoon:
The DSS is supposed to be unheard of, akin to the American CIA, Israel - Mossad or the Russian KGB. However, this arm of government has metamorphosed to an organ of state oppression, repression and suppression. This is too bad.

You are wrong, DSS is not a spy organization, it's akin to THE SECRET SERVICE in US.

Konquest:
There was NO drug-related forfeiture. You are one of the well-known monikers here who DELIBERATELY and regularly defame and refer to the now President 'Bola Tinubu as a drug*lord like you did earlier on this same thread. For your information, the then Senator 'Bola Tinubu back in 1993 was exonerated by a United States Federal Court of any links to drug crimes. This is why the remaining funds in his 8 United States bank checking accounts totalling over $1 million were refunded to him by the United States in 1993 when many of those criminally defaming him online and offline today were NOT even born or still sucking breast milk! ONLY $460,000 was forfeited and it was in a CIVIL case NOT a CRIMINAL case and more evidence can be gleaned from the link BELOW.

Tinubu NOT a Drug Baron. David Hundeyin Lied
https://www.nairaland.com/7589449/tinubu-not-drug-baron-david


The United States does NOT do "plea bargaining" with known drug barons or drug dealers because it's a heinous crime. If Bola Ahmed Tinubu who worked at a senior level as a distinguished Treasurer and Chartered Accountant with Mobil Nigeria, (now ExxonMobil) was a drug*lord like you and your ilk usually claim FALSELY on this discussion forum out of ignorance, bigotry and resentment, the United States would have kicked him right into jail like they did to the Panamanian Military dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega who was removed from power in December 1989 and finally he surrendered and was brought to justice via a jail term in the United States for being a drug baron. I personally saw scenes of that invasion in real time back in December 1989 and January 1990. If Tinubu is (or was ever a drug baron), the United States Government would have publicly warned Nigerians and extradited him long ago to the United States. Tinubu has been traveling to the United States in his private jet for years yet he has NEVER been arrested by the "US DEA" or other U.S. intelligence agencies contrary to the constant toxic hate, derailing NL threads and spreading massive disinformation which paid online trolls of majorly South East of Nigeria origin who are Peter's political supporters engage in.


NOW, unknown to YOU and others who relentlessly "criminally defame" this man called President Tinubu on NL and elsewhere online, right in 2003, the Legal Attache of the United States Embassy in Lagos State, Michael Bonner, CLEARLY stated in an official reply to the Nigerian Police investigators which YOU can read in the link BELOW that the then Governor 'Bola Tinubu of Lagos State has NEVER been arrested OR convicted for any crime commited in the United States based on the information contained in the FBI's National Security Information Center (NCIC) database which contains the names of ALL those arrested on United States' soil. His signed document further emphasized that Tinubu has NEVER been arrested and convicted for ANY crimes related to hard drugs in the ENTIRE history of the United States. I will attach the screenshot of the 2003 document here later. This is one of the EVIDENCE and documents Gani Fawehimmi, SAN, saw which made him to slow down on his criticisms of Tinubu before he passed on.



Read the FIRST & THIRD POSTS on the NL thread right BELOW to see the original screenshots and proper information on the United States Embassy Legal Attache Michael Bonner's official document exonerating Tinubu and how Bola Ahmed Tinubu has NEVER been arrested or convicted in the United States.

https://www.nairaland.com/7589449/tinubu-not-drug-baron-david

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Drug prosecution was not as serious as it is now. Many walked away with just a slap on the palm. Infact, it might seem a crime for any successful individual then not to be entangled with drugs. The very first time many people heard about cocaine in Nigeria was in 1985 when IBB overthrew Buhari in the Grace Okon saga. Many barons of Nigerian descents were already running their cartels in USA. The intricacy of the case is beyond street gossip and denials. Who dares to dig and investigate will be stonewalled for obvious reasons. It is difficult for some people to believe that whoever will be Nigerian Presidents have already been decided and it has little or nothing to do with Nigerians. Lest you forget, Nigeria doesn't belong to Nigerians.

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InvertedHammer:
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Drug prosecution was not as serious as it is now. Many walked away with just a slap on the palm. Infact, it might seem a crime for any successful individual then not to be entangled with drugs. The very first time many people heard about cocaine in Nigeria was in 1985 when IBB overthrew Buhari in the Grace Okon saga. Many barons of Nigerian descents were already running their cartels in USA. The intricacy of the case is beyond street gossip and denials. Who dares to dig and investigate will be stonewalled for obvious reasons. It is difficult for some people to believe that whoever will be Nigerian Presidents have already been decided and it has little or nothing to do with Nigerians. Lest you forget, Nigeria doesn't belong to Nigerians.

/

I largely agree with your submissions because as of 1982, I read a non-fiction book entitled: "The Kaduna Mafia" which exposed the involvement of members of this group in high politics, international crime and hard drugs syndicates. Today, based on NDLEA arrests made and published for over 15 years now, you have some of these insidious drug*barons (especially from parts of Anambra State in Nigeria) bringing in Latin-American drug cartels to set up illegal methamphetamine labs in various locations in Anambra, Asaba in Delta State, Lagos, Ogun, etc, with the attendant pollution (from the cancer-causing waste products of illegal methamphetamine production labs) of the underground water sources like it happened in 2023 when a drug baron from Anambra was arrested at the elite Victoria Garden City by a crack team of intelligence agencies and NDLEA for using a VGC house to make methamphetamine in his illegal meth laboratory. The NDLEA WARNED VGC residents NOT to drink from the underground water supply due to toxic pollution from the cancer-causing methamphetamine waste product this drug*baron buried inside the ground of the Victoria Garden City which had contaminated the underground water source.

Just a quick CORRECTION in your post. During the General Muhammadu Buhari and 'Tunde Idiagbon Military Government from 1984 till 1985, 3 male drug traffickers in heroin, cocaine, etc, Bartholomew Owoh, Lawal Ojulope and Bernard Ogedegbe were famously executed under a decree promulgated against drug trafficking. It was a BIG news in the mass media back then for many Nigerians, BECAUSE they were the FIRST EVER set of drug traffickers to be executed via firing squad in Nigeria. After that firing squad episode, drug trafficking through the airports and elsewhere reduced. It was during IBB's Military dictatorship that drug trafficking increased again because firing squad had been discontinued for drug trafficking (which was and still is an error on Nigeria's part). The Gloria Okon hard drugs saga in Kano right at her "Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport" (MAKIA) arrest point and detention too was a major episode I followed closely in the "Newswatch Magazine" articles of the iconic Bendel (Edo-born) 'Dele Giwa on the infamous Gloria Okon saga including her sudden alleged death.

ntyce:
Not true.
CIA, Mossad and KGB are equivalent of our NIA, they deal with external threats.
DSS deals with internal threats.
The USA Secret Service is the equivalent of our DSS.

Very true.

Now, how many times has the American secret service stooped so low as to banter with citizens calling Trump a pedophile?

ntyce:
Try dey learn guys, ehn!!
Google search and AI dey there.

Abeg

Is it google search and AI you used that gave you this

ntyce:
The USA Secret Service is the equivalent of our DSS.

Since you have learned, I am surprised that you cannot answer a simple question:

how is the US secret service equivalent to DSS?

A very wrong and unrealistic way if looking at it. I'm sure your sibling will be the ones to take care of the kids, should anything happen to you?

The very reason why I believe the wife is an insider. One who looks after the kids, should anything happen to the man. Siblings to have their own kids to take care...

Kastonkastroll:
Don't worry he will explain himself better in court. Calling a president a criminal is like calling all Nigerians criminals. So make sowore bring his implicating evidence that will proof that Tinubu is a criminal in court!

No Tinubu is a criminal on his own. Their policies and thiefthief make more Nigerians become criminals though.

ntyce:
Not true.
CIA, Mossad and KGB are equivalent of our NIA, they deal with external threats.
DSS deals with internal threats.
The USA Secret Service is the equivalent of our DSS.

The Secret Service is not equivalent to the DSS. There are some functions that bear similarity like being the PPD of the President and Vice, including their families but the Secret Service was borne out of past incidents that posed existential threats to the state.

Those specific incidents define their existence and mandate today. The DSS on the other hand is a third iteration of a restructured police service system. By this they are like a secret police. And this is why the DNA of the police remains in their mode of operations covering anything and everything that posed a threat to state and state actors.

That is why I am surprised that people say they have no business in what is a personal matter between Mr. Sowore and Mr. President. For the police cum DSS, there is no personal matter. And abuse, slander, character assassination are offences open to attention.

The US Secret Service on the other hand deals with threats to the life of the US President and Vice for the specific reason of protecting the integrity of government.

So as in this case it is not about the temperament of the President, it is more about the security of the office holder because of the country he governs.