‘DSS officials came to our office with fake IDs, unmarked vehicles’ – SERAP tells court

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has revealed that officials of Nigeria’s concealed police, the Department of State Services, DSS, who invaded their Abuja bureau utilized fake names and came with 2 unmarked vehicles.

DAILY POST reports that SERAP had successful September alleged that the DSS invaded its Abuja office.

The DSS past released a connection asserting that the sojourn to SERAP’s bureau was “a regular investigation”, but 2 of its officials aboriginal filed a defamation suit against SERAP, seeking implicit N5 cardinal successful damages.

Tayo Oyetibo, SAN and Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN, the defence counsel for SERAP, informed the Federal Capital Territory High Court that “one of the 2 DSS officials who visited SERAP’s Abuja bureau disguised arsenic ‘Sarah David’ to fell their existent identities.

This move, according to the defence counsel, revealed the agency’s atrocious religion and sinister motives.

The elder lawyers besides stated successful tribunal that “the DSS has nary operational wont oregon signifier of engaging with officials of NGOs, whether to found a narration with caller enactment oregon for immoderate societal intent whatsoever, whether successful the Federal Capital Territory oregon elsewhere”.

The case, which was heard connected Thursday by Justice Yusuf Halilu of Court 13, has been adjourned to November 29, 2024, for further proceedings.