“But the DSS has since deviated from its core mandate in the last 10 years by becoming a willing tool to the government in power. “It is also charged with the protection of senior government officials, particularly the President, Vice President, state governors and visiting heads of states and governments with their respective families. The agency which was established by Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, was supposed to be patterned after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States of America or the MI5 Security Service in the United Kingdom. “The Department of State Services or the State Security Service needs a complete and total overhaul. Reacting to the recent activities of the DSS, the political activist accused the secret police of monitoring and then leaking telephone conversations of some political leaders (especially in opposition) in order to embarrass them and to impress the APC elements.įrank, who is the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) Ambassador to East Africa and Middle East, said the DSS has the right to intercept unlawful communication but not to leak private conversations that are not favourable to the ruling party.Īccording to Frank, the main responsibilities of the DSS as stated in its enabling Act include counterintelligence, internal security, counterterrorism, and surveillance as well as investigating some other types of serious crimes against the state. A former deputy national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has claimed that the Directorate of State Security Service (DSS) has metamorphosed into an intelligence arm of the ruling party and urgently needs a total overhaul.įrank, however, said the DSS needed to wake up and restore the lost confidence Nigerians have in its leadership.
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