By Chuks Oyema-Aziken
The Department of State Services has described as figment of imagination of the news medium that reported that suspects arrested by the service are being forced to make confessions.
The report in an online newspaper, said that a personnel of the DSS identified as Samson Enweruzo is behind some of the extrajudicial killings and brutalisation of people in the South-East, in the name of finding Biafran agitators.
The report further said that Samson was notorious for forcing false confessions out of persons suspected to be members of the pro-Biafra group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) or its militant wing, Eastern Security Network (ESN).
DSS National Public Relations Officer, Dr. Peter Afunanya in a press release on Sunday said that there is no iota of truth in the so called exclusive.
According to him “The DSS does not force out confessions from suspects and has not done so in the matter of IPOB and ESN. The Service is a professional agency that follows the rules of engagement and standards operating procedures in all of its activities.
“It does not take laws into its hands. It is a public knowledge that it has by, today, charged many suspects to court in line with democratic norms. The entire reportage is a figment of the imagination of the news medium.
He said the aim of the report is to malign the DSS.
“Its aim is to simply malign the Service and bring it to disrepute. By now, everyone should have been aware of the brand of guerilla journalism practised by this particular outfit. The public should ignore the report wholly.”
