{"id":380943,"date":"2021-08-05T12:38:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T11:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=380943"},"modified":"2021-08-05T12:59:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T11:59:10","slug":"we-dont-detain-citizens-on-order-of-powerful-people-dss-replies-segun-adeniyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=380943","title":{"rendered":"We don&#8217;t detain citizens on order of powerful people &#8211; DSS replies Segun Adeniyi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Department of State Services (DSS) says it does not detain citizens on the order of powerful people.<\/p>\n<p>DSS said this while reacting to an opinion in a newspaper where it was alleged that hundreds of innocent citizens are presently languishing in Police and DSS detention centres across Nigeria, following arrests ordered by powerful men and women.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Peter Afunanya, DSS spokesman, in a statement on Thursday titled: \u201cRe: Beyond Abba Kyari\u2019s Indictment,\u201d said the opinion written by one Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi was inciting, misinforming and should be introverted.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads in part: \u201cDear Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi, without efforts to join issues with you on an opinion expressed by you in your article of 5th August 2021 on the above subject matter, the SSS takes exceptions to the part that states that \u2018Hundreds of innocent citizens are currently languishing in Police and State Security Services (SSS) detention centres across the country, following arrests ordered by powerful men and women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t true. I don\u2019t speak for the Police, but it\u2019s certain that no Nigerian or anyone for that matter is in the SSS\/DSS custody on the order(s) of private citizens or persons. The SSS has a Standard Operation Procedure (SOP) on the criminal justice administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe SSS shouldn\u2019t be run down given the slightest opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unacceptable for a respectable columnist of your experience and status to make a sweeping statement like the one herein. It\u2019s misleading, inciting, denigrating, demeaning, misinforming, and should be withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you Sir as you correct this erroneous impression created about the service.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of State Services (DSS) says it does not detain citizens on the order of powerful people. DSS said this while reacting to an opinion in a newspaper where it was alleged that hundreds of innocent citizens are presently languishing in Police and DSS detention centres across Nigeria, following arrests ordered by powerful men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":380944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[2658,1646,17164],"class_list":["post-380943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-dss","tag-peter-afunaya"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/380944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}