The Growing Role of the DSS in Shielding its Accused Officers from the Law Must be Questioned, and Must Stop …

by Ameenu Aym, Abuja

Despite Walida’s release from captivity of a DSS officer and the service, there remains some pertinent questions to be asked about the conduct of the DSS under the current DG, in the case of her abductor and peodophile officer?

Is the service going to arrest, surrender and handover the suspect and other suspects who aided and abetted his criminal activities for two years to the police?

Or is the service going to continue shielding him and other suspects from facing the law in an open court ?

Why did the DSS arrange a phony press interview with the girl, and attempted to divert attention from the Ibo officer who abducted her in order to divert attention and obsufucate matters by placing the guilt on one mysterious and phantom Mariam?

Why is the service suspected of sponsoring a never heard of phony Arewa Youth Group to stage a protest in support of the position of the officer, all in an effort to absolve him of guilt ?

Why did the DSS coerce her to lie about her age and other timelines in that Daily Trust interview?

Why is the DSS attempting to shield the officer from the long arms of the law ?

In ordee to redeem its image, the DSS must arrest the accused officer and his other accomplices today, and must hand them over to the police for further investigation and possible prosecution for crimes rape of a minor, kidnapping, and other charges.

All the civilians and DSS oficers involved in her kidnap, rape, relocation to Abuja, conversion to Christainity and the medical personal who attended to her by performing a cesarean section on her during delivery of her baby must be identified, arrested and handed over to the police in order to face the law.

The DG must also handover another officer acussed of shooting and killing two people, and injuring another person here in Abuja. The accused killer officer must not be shielded from the law. The officer in question is a yoruba christain who was allegedly reported to have bragged about shooting the deceased person in a road rage over a minor arguement sparked over a parking space.

He was reported to have opened fire in broad daylight and in the presence of the public where he shot to death the deceased person along with another person dead, and another person was also reported to have been injured in the process. After commiting the criminal act, the officer was reported to have fled the scene of the crime.

The DG must also explain why the officer was declared dead when the police reported the crime to the service and demanded to take the suspect into custody?

To the discerning observers and objective commentators in the public space who are currently analysing the current state of affairs in the service, seem to suggest or portray that its either the actions and decisions of the current DG of the DSS falls shprt of his much touted records of service and wealth of expereince.

His behaviour and wrong decisions to shield his officers from the law tends to portray him as as either a indiviual bitten by the bigotry bug, or that he has gone rogue, or that lacks the emotional intelligence in such a high office to be aware of public perceptions with how the organisation he heads handle such sensitive cases with far reaching social, religious and religious connotations, especially at times like this when accussations and counter acussations of religious persecution, religious insensitivity and religious genocide are flying around in our nation and in our body polity.

If this state of affairs continue, the negative perception and charges of shielding criminal officers by the service and against the DG would subsist.

Both the service and the DG would open themselves to fair or unfair accusations from the public that they are sheilding their officers acussed of capital offenses from prosecution on the basis of their shared Christian faith.
Nothing would stop the public from making these charges against the service and its head. Unless the changes in behaviour and reaction are made, the charge will be stuck on both like a glue.

The DG must not be perceived as being bais and acting against his oath of office otherwise he would lose the confidence of well meaning Nigerians, especially those who are non Christians.

The public image his media handlers and his past pronouncements and actions has curated in the minds of the public that he is a fair, just and a detrabilized head of the DSS, that he is an officer who would not discriminate against any Nigerian on the basis of tribe or faith, would go to waste.

I have already starting reading some harsh critiques in articles in the media calling for either his resignation from office or sacking by the president due to impunitious activities of DSS officers that have nothing to do with their official duties.

Unless the DG wakes up in order to reign in the conduct of his officers, address their lack of respect for the law and for the lives of innocent civilians, the backlash is bound to continue.

At all times, the overall conduct and behaviour of his officers must be reigned in to be in conformity with professionalism, civilized behaviour and strict adherence to the rule of the law.
They must realize that they are not above the laws of the land.

Finally, an arrest protocol must be put in place for the immediate arrest and handover of any officer accused of a crime to the police for immediate investigation and prosecution.

The service despite its wide powers must resist the urge to indulge in self-help and of playing the role of a judge, jury and executioner in any case involving its officers and service personnel.

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