Ekiti State government & DSS invasion: The missing link
By Nelson Ekujumi
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| Ekiti State governor |
Early in the week, news broke in the media whereby allegations were raised by the members of the Ekiti state house of assembly against the DSS that it invaded the house of assembly to arrest some members who were busy performing their legislative functions and thereafter, the house addressed a press conference where they also raised another allegation against the DSS that they were offered an inducement of 1 million dollars to impeach governor Ayodele Fayose.
As expected, the Ekiti state executive council at its weekly
meeting passed a resolution condemning the alledged invasion and threatening
fire and brimstone against the DSS and the Presidency and have been busy with
clandestine moves to blackmail, embarrass and intimidate the DSS.
Toeing the same line as though acting out its part in an
orchestrated script, even without investigating the veracity of the allegations
by ordering its committee to do so, the House of Representatives in its usual
manner of placing the cart before the horse also joined in condemning the
alledged invasion and directed the DG of DSS to appear before it to explain its
alledged action which calls to question the sense of rationality of our
legislators.
The DSS has become the focus of attack, assault, blackmail
and abuse by enemies of democracy and our country who are still suffering from
the hangover of the past era of lawlessness and impunity in which the
organization was corrupted and misused and are hellbent on distracting it from
carrying out its constitutional responsibility which it has been doing
impartially, patriotically and professionally since the advent of the present
administration. Thus, it is important to admonish the Nigerian people to be
vigilant, lest they be tricked.
However, kudos must be given to the DSS, which from all
intents and purposes, seems to have been restructured and reorientated by its
new leadership in line with its core mandate as Nigeria's secret police in the
mould of the KGB, CIA, M15, etc with its non response publicly to all the
allegations, which was a radical departure from its image and actions under the
immediate past administration at the centre, which abused and misused the
organization as political thugs in violation of its constitutional
responsibility.
If we all recall, on 20th November 2014, the Nigeria police
under the leadership of ex IGP Suleiman Abba and operatives of the DSS in a
military coup fashion invaded the National Assembly with the aim of
overthrowing the legitimately elected leadership of the House of
Representatives, led by Honourable now governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state
and this incident was well captured on video and other visual images which were
incontrovertible. However, the anti democratic coupists were repelled by the
vigilance of democratic elements and they had to flee with their tails in
between their legs.
Thus, as the Ekiti state house of assembly and state
government have raised the allegations of invasion of the house of assembly and
inducement for impeachment against the DSS, may we request that answers or
evidences be provided to the following pertinent questions?
1. Were the
Honourable members duly invited by the DSS for interrogation or not?
2. Did the Honourable members comply or declined and had to
be forcefully arrested?
3. Can the Ekiti state house of assembly and government
provide a video footage of the invasion of the house even if its from a camera
phone?
4. The Ekiti state house of assembly must have a CCTV
security system in place, so can we have a video footage of the invasion?
5. The Ekiti state house of assembly has a media department
as well as a press corp, can the Nigerian public be obliged footage of the
invasion from any of these sources?
6. If we go by this allegation is that the Honourable
members were forcefully taken away without their consent by the DSS, can we
have documentary evidence of entry by force or resistance such damaged doors,
upturned tables and chairs, damaged gates of the assembly complex where the
alledged invasion took place?
7. When this members
were forcefully taken away, by what means were they transported away from the
assembly complex? If it was by a car, didn't anybody do a video recording of
the car exiting the house?
8. Can the registration number of the car or vehicle by
which the arrested honourables were taken away by the DSS be made public?
9. Can we have eyewitness account of the alledged invasion
from other sources since the house of assembly is not peopled by only
legislators?
10. Did the alledged forceful arrest of these legislators
take place in the House of assembly or at some other locations?
11. Can the video recording of where and when the offer of
the inducement of 1 million dollars took place and the persons involved be made
public? Etc.
It is important for Nigerians to admonish the members of the
Ekiti state house of assembly and the state government to provide evidence to
back up their allegations of invasion of the house of assembly and inducement against the DSS, of which failure
to do that, will be tantamount to undermining national security and democracy
by blackmailing, embarrassing and intimidating the security agencies from
performing their constitutional responsibility which is unacceptable.
In the final submission, one hereby calls on the Inspector
General of Police to immediately order an investigation into the alledged
invasion and inducement of 1 million dollars offered the house of assembly
members to impeach governor Ayodele Fayose, because it is an assault on
democracy and violations of our constitution which must be prosecuted in order
to restore the integrity of our democracy that is under threat from anti
democratic elements.
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