The Department of State Service (DSS),Tuesday, appealed to politicians to desist from habit of dragging security forces into political matter.
DSS disclosed that it was being hunted by political parties for rejecting the N14million bribe that was offered to its officials in Osun State, during the gubernatorial election that took place last Saturday.
The Spokesperson for the Department of State Services (DSS), Marilyn Ogar, who stated this during the routine security briefing at the National Briefing Centre, in Abuja said the service could not be induced with money.
Ogar said “The director that was in charge of election duty for the DSS was asked to come and collect N4Million for himself and N10million for the men, because the money was declined, that is the offence that the DSS has committed.
“The rejection of the money is bringing up a lot of misunderstanding between political parties and the DSS, it is unfortunate. I want to tell you, there is a big man occupying a very sensitive position in Osun State, the man should thank his God that it is not the DSS that arrested him with the huge sum of money he was found with.”
Maintaining that agency cannot be induced with money, Ogar said, “We are well paid, I will say it categorically, our operations are well funded, N14 million as against N200m that was spent, which one will you go for. People should stop using money to entice security forces. The federal government and the people of Nigeria who have engaged us have the capability of taking care of us.”
According to her, if security forces were not fully on ground during the period of the election, the story about Osun State would have changed while reiterating that political parties should as much as possible leave security forces out of politics.
“We thank God that APC worn the election in Osun State, there was no bomb blast because there was enough security presence on ground. The security forces that assisted in the election in Edo State were the same ones that went to Ondo, Anambra, Ekiti and Osun.” Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Madam DSS please tell Nigerians the political party that tried to bribe your Osun state officials prior to last Saturdays election. We're tired of all these half baked press release all the time from security agents.
ReplyDeleteWe need to know the Party that offer the bribe.
ReplyDeleteMary you should be ashamed of yourself and your organization. What exactly do you do? Speak from both sides of the mouth? You call yourselves SSS and you can't gather intelligence? We have had enough of you talking about political parties and politicians. Who is behind Boko Haram?
ReplyDeleteDo something meaningful woman, are you a politician? You are too visible for a secret service person. How many times have you seen FBI talking about democrats and republicans. Take several seats.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand why a highly respected & sensitive security apparatus of a respected giant of a continent,would chose to come on air to give us this kind of information without being ready to go all the way.
ReplyDeleteMoreover,I would expect them to arrest those who attempted to bribe them to defend their competence. This our country has a lot of problems which includes the low intellectual capacity of the powers that be. To make it worse,they also take all of us for fools.
Madam, you are a disgrace to the profession of security. How can you be bribed and not make arrest? You are a liar and bastard. This half baked bread is not welcome and I beg to say that you should resign your position because you failed to make an arrest when crime was committed. May be you wanted more money than what was offered. You are a serious fraud and should be prosecuted for failure to do your job.
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