Nigeria’s Secret Service, known as Department of State Services ( DSS), has denied that five of its personnel aided leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, to escape from his Umuahia home, in southeast Nigeria, on Sept. 14, 2017.
Since the Sept. 14 raid by a combined team of the Army, Police and the DSS on his home in Umuahia, Kanu’s whereabouts remained unknown, until he was recently sighted on television praying in Israel.
A statement by the DSS spokesman, Peter Afunanya, has faulted an ongoing report saying it was fake, mischievous and defamatory.
“The Service wishes to state that the news is fake, mischievous and defamatory. It is nothing but a figment of the imagination of the originators,”he said.
He said that the stock in trade of Kanu and his collaborators, was to peddle rumours, gossips and propaganda aimed at subverting the government, its key agencies and officials,
He said that the service was aware of some unscrupulous elements keen on exploiting the situation to constitute a nuisance to the freedom of Nigerians as guaranteed in the Constitution.
Afunanya said that the elements were also keen on disrupting the forthcoming 2019 general elections.
“The DSS will not idly standby and watch these undesirable elements achieve their aims,”he said.