The State Security Service, SSS, says it won’t shirk its tasks or enable detractors to forestall it from endeavor its statutory duties or finishing up lawful orders by constituted authorities.
DAILY NIGERIAN experiences {that a} part of the media had reported that Senator Abdulaziz Yari was invited by the key police allegedly in reference to Mr Yari’ reported refusal to select up President Bola Tinubu’s phone call.
whereas denying the declare, the SSS Public Relations Officer of the Service, Dr Peter Afunanya, in an announcement on Sunday in Abuja, stated the Service would stay targeted, resilient, patriotic {and professional} within the conduct of its affairs.
Mr Afunanya stated: “It is petty, if not laughable, to report that Senator Abdulaziz Yari was invited for refusing to pick up the President’s call as reported in some sections of the media.
“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.”
Mr Afunanya added that the clarification adopted false experiences in sections of the web media that had variously and wrongly fed the general public with deceptive narratives and accusations towards DSS.
According to him, aside from the web experiences, there have been different variants of unsubstantiated and nameless petitions flying round towards the DGSS, his household and a few officers.
He stated the Service wouldn’t have responded to the inaccuracies however for the fickle-minded and susceptible individuals in addition to the unsuspecting public that may take the lies for information.
Mr Afunanya stated the report that the Service stormed the Independent Corrupt Practices and different Related Offences Commission, ICPC, and Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, and carted away sure information from them was not true.
According to him, to set the data straight, the DSS didn’t execute operations of any form on the ICPC and CCB or take away information from their workplaces.
“Instructively, the 2 companies have, on their very own, refuted the information in extensively circulated press statements.
Mr Afunanya, subsequently, enjoined the general public to ignore the deceptive tales, geared toward inflicting disaffection within the nation and disparaging the Service’s management.
He assured that the service would proceed to work with related stakeholders to handle safety challenges within the nation in keeping with its mandate and the directives of the President.
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