The Department of State Services (DSS) has again warned
against plans by some persons and groups to exploit some fault lines to cause
ethnoreligious violence in some parts of the country.
The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Service, Dr Peter
Afunanya, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
The Service had on Jan. 11 issued an alert of plans by some
elements working with external forces to incite religious violence across the
country.
The alert stipulated that the targeted States were Sokoto,
Kano, Kaduna, Plateau, Rivers, Oyo, Lagos, and those in the South East.
It said the plans were to cause inter-religious conflicts
and use their foot soldiers to attack some worship centres, religious leaders,
personalities as well as key and vulnerable points.
Afunanya said the latest developments on the alert indicated
desperate efforts by these groups to subvert public order.
He said that persons have continued to resort to inciting,
unguarded and divisive statements, acts and to pit citizens against one another
in order to apparently inflame the embers of tribal and religious discords.
“For the umpteenth time, the Service strongly warns these
elements to desist forthwith from their (planned) nefarious acts or face the
full wraths of the law.
“The DSS will, in
collaboration with other security and law enforcement agencies, take necessary
steps to ensure the safety of lives and property of the citizenry,” he said.
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