DSS Debunks Media Report on Forcing False Confessions Out of IPOB Suspects

By Zakaa Lazarus

The Department of Security Service has debunked the report making the news that they are forcing out false confessional statement from IPOB Suspects as claimed by Sahara Reporters.

A statement signed by the Public Relation Officer DSS, Peter Afunanya, in Abuja noted that, the DSS does not force out confessions from suspects and has not done so in the matter of IPOB and ESN.

According to the DSS Spokesman, the Service is a professional agency that follows the rules of engagement and standards operating procedures in all of its activities.

He said that, It does not take laws into its hands. It is a public knowledge that it has by, today, charged many suspects to court in line with democratic norms.

The entire reportage according to him is a figment of the imagination of the news medium. Its aim is to simply malign the Service and bring it to disrepute.

He also said by now, everyone should have been aware of the brand of guerilla journalism practised by this particular outfit. Urging the public to ignore the report wholly

Meanwhile, Sahara Reporters reported that an operative of Nigeria’s secret police, the Department of State Services (DSS), identified as Samson Enweruzo is behind some of the extrajudicial killings and brutalisation of people in the South-East, in the name of finding Biafran agitators,

Enweruzo, according to Sahara Reporters who hails from Imo State, was involved in the invasion of the home of one Chuks Egwuatu and the illegal arrest and torture of four of his (Egwuatu’s) siblings