The Department of State Services (DSS) has denied invading the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to cart away files implicating President Bola Tinubu and close aides.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the DSS also broke silence on the arrest and subsequent detention of the former Governor of Zamfara State, Senator Abdulaziz Yari.
In a statement on Sunday by Peter Afunanya, Public Relations Officer of the Department of State Services, National Headquarters, Abuja, the DSS stressed its officials DSS did not execute operations of any kind at the ICPC and CCB or remove files from their offices.
Recall that there have been claims that that the Service stormed the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and carted away certain files from them.
It was also claimed claimed that there was a rumble in the DSS due to nepotism, and that the DSS was snooping on Judges on the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.
Reports also emerged that Senator Abdulaziz Yari was arrested for allegedly refusing to pick the President Bola Tinubu’s phone call.
According to the DSS, “There are other variants of unsubstantiated and anonymous petitions flying around against the DGSS, his family and some officials”.
The statement reads in part: “The Service ordinarily would not have responded to these inaccuracies but for the fickle minded and vulnerable persons as well as the unsuspecting public that may take the lies for facts.
“To set the records straight, the DSS did not execute operations of any kind at the ICPC and CCB or remove files from their offices. Instructively, the two agencies have, on their own, refuted the news in widely circulated press statements.
“It is petty, if not laughable, to report that Yari was invited for refusing to pick the President’s call. This is the height of junk journalism. Yari knows why he was invited.
“In fact, the Service denies all the allegations as they lack any factual basis or credibility. They are only figments of the creators’ imaginations”.
It further reads: “If Yari or anyone else is to be invited or taken into custody, the Service will not hesitate to do so as far as that is procedurally done within the confines of the law. The Service will remain focused, resilient, patriotic and professional in the conduct of its affairs”.