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Terrorism: DSS compiling dossier of subversive elements – Magaji
…says attempt to subvert 2023 polls will be resisted
The Director General, Department of State Services, Yusuf Bichi Magaji has vowed that a comprehensive data on individuals and groups threatening national security and peaceful coexistence of Nigerians is being compiled with a view to dealing decisively with such malevolent elements.
Magaji also said that all subversive individuals and groups will be identified, isolated and dealt with in a couple of months.
Alhaji Magaji also insisted that attempts by troublemakers to thwart a peaceful conduct of the and 2023 general elections will be resisted by the nation’s security agencies.
The DSS boss made the announcement at an event to mark the end of first tenure and the beginning of a fresh four-year tenure at the DSS headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday night.
The occasion also witnessed the unveiling of a book edited by the spokesperson for the service, Dr. Peter Afunanya entitled “For The Records: A Compendium of YM Bichi’s Legacy At The DSS”.
Magaji said: “In a couple of months, all those responsible for the insecurity in the country will be rounded-up.
“We have been building data of people that have been trying to undermine the security of our nation,” the DG DSS said.
He added that as it was during his first tenure, the secret service will be driven by technology, commitment, justice and professionalism.
On the 2023 general elections, the DG DSS stated any attempt to subvert the general elections and other activities of government would be brought down
He assured of the agency’s commitment to tackle the prevailing insecurity besetting Nigeria.
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8 soldiers sentenced to death for desertion
Prosecutors had sought the death penalty against 11 soldiers on trial in the same case, but the Goma court acquitted three of them, ruling that the charges against those soldiers were “not established”.
The troops were fighting against the mostly Tutsi M23 (March 23 movement) rebels, who took up arms again in late 2021, seizing large swathes of North Kivu province.
“They never fled from the enemy nor abandoned their position — on the contrary,” said Alexis Olenga, a lawyer for one of the five officers facing charges.
Olenga said the soldiers were based at Lushangi-Cafe, a federal army position close to the strategic town of Sake, 20 kilometres (12 miles) down the road from North Kivu’s capital Goma.
These were the first capital punishment sentences since authorities decided on March 13 to lift a suspension on executions that had been enforced since 2003.
The failure of the army and its auxiliaries to halt the advance of the M23 rebels has raised suspicion that the security forces had been infiltrated.
Several military personnel as well as members of parliament, senators and business leaders have been arrested and accused of “complicity with the enemy”.
For the last 20 years, death sentences have been handed down in the DRC, especially in cases involving the military or armed groups, but have systematically been commuted to life in prison.
Human rights groups and the Catholic Church have called on the government to abolish capital punishment for any crime. (AFP)
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Police arrest prophet for rape, abduction in Enugu
The suspected whose church in located in Amorji-Nike, Enugu East Local Government Area was also accused of unlawfullly being in possession of a pump action gun, another locally made gun and two live ammunition.
According the Commissioner of Police, Enugu State, the suspect was arrested on May 1, 2024 by men of the Anti-Kidnapping Tactical Squad following the receipt of a report.
He was alleged that the prophet abducted, physically assaulted and had carnal knowledge of the female victim under the pretense of curing her of spiritual problems.
He said: “A preliminary investigation reveals that the suspect, an acclaimed prophet and owner of a church (names withheld), in the course of providing the said spiritual service, kept the victim beyond the number of days he promised her parents.
“He thereafter compelled them to sell their plot of land to pay him for services rendered. Meanwhile, a search executed in his premises led to the recovery of one pump action, one locally-made gun and two live cartridges. Further discreet investigation is ongoing.” (Daily Sun)
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Tenant remanded in prison for setting his landlord’s house on fire
An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan on Thursday ordered that a 35-year-old man, Dickson Peter, be remanded in a correction facility for allegedly setting his landlord’s house on fire.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the police charged the defendant with two counts of felony and arson.
The Magistrate, Mr M. Mudashiru, who did not take his plea due to lack of jurisdiction, ordered that he be remanded in the Abolongo Correctional Facility, Oyo Town.
Mudashiru said the remand is pending legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).
He adjourned the matter until July 23, 2024, for reference.
Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Insp. Femi Oluwadare told the court that Peter, on April 18, at about 12:30 am, was alleged to have unlawfully set fire to the house of his landlord, Cepas Okeme, and destroyed properties worth N6.5 million.
Oluwadare said that after he set the building on fire, it also spread to the next house property belonging to Bose Ali ‘F’ and destroyed property worth N3.5 million.
He said the offence contravened the provisions of Section 443 of the Criminal Code Laws of Oyo State 2000.
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