Showing posts with label Department of State Services. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Department of State Services. Show all posts

28/01/2014

El-Rufai released by DSS after 15hrs

Department of State Services, (DSS)released former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Malam Nasir el-Rufai, who on Tuesday willing surrendered to the DSS regained his freedom,After being questioned for close to fifteen hours. El-Rufai, the current Interim Deputy National Secretary of the nation’s leading opposition party, All Progressives Congress, APC, was driven on Tuesday by Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, to the national headquarters of the security outfit at about 9.15a.m. in an ash-coloured Mercedes Sports Utility Vehicle was released at about midnight on Monday to go home.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Friday strongly condemned the harassment of its Deputy National Secretary, Malam Nasir El-Rufai by the Department of State Security (DSS), describing the storming of his residence in Abuja by armed DSS operatives on Friday, without producing any arrest warrant as a shameful overkill.