The Department of State Services (DSS), Nigeria’s secret police, has warned a woman who claimed to be Shafiu Ibrahim’s wife to stop spreading false information about the Service by using false news, hate speech, misleading narratives, and other means in order to win unwarranted public sympathy.
In a widely shared video, the woman claimed that Ibrahim, her husband, who had ties to terrorism, had been kidnapped by individuals posing as DSS agents. She also claimed that the Kogi State Government, specifically the governor of the state and his chief of staff, were responsible.
Additionally, she stated that the DSS agents who broke into their home on the specified day assaulted her and other family members despite the fact that she was pregnant.
Peter Afunanya, the Service’s spokesperson, reportedly responded to the accusations in a statement on Thursday, claiming that Aisha was either lying on purpose or pandering to the crowd.
The DSS said, “She is either playing to the gallery or deliberately lying. It is not to my knowledge that she was denied access at the Agency’s gate. The DSS does not deny anyone access to its facility or suspects once the criteria for such access are met.
“There are processes/procedures in this regard. It is also very unfortunate that the lady is dragging the Service into the Kogi State local politics. She knows very well that the husband was not picked as a result of Kogi politics as she has desperately tried to link us with or make the public believe.
“Encourage her to desist from using fake news, hate speech, hostile activism, misleading narratives, and other instruments of disinformation against the Service or to curry unnecessary public sympathy.
“She knows her husband and the circumstances of his arrest which was procedurally done. And he was not the only person so arrested at the time he was.
“She should, please, stop the sensations and the mischief to drag us into Kogi politics.”