Group faults DSS on abduction/killing of Fulani Herdsmen by IPOB

Onitsha based human right group the International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law has faulted report of abduction and killing of Fulani herdsmen in Abia state by members of Indigenous of People of Biafra IPOB describing the report as quackery and one lacking proof.

The Intersociety in statement issued in Onitsha and obtained by The Authority said that although the report vindicated the earlier reports by Intersociety of that Abia State is riddled with indiscriminate killing of unarmed civilian citizens and dumping of their lifeless bodies in shallow graves or burrow pits but unlike the DSS account, which originated and ended in text with no pictorial, video and other graphic backup pieces of evidence; ours was statistically and pictorially presented with video clips

According to statement the titled: Exposing The Dark Sides Of DSS Allegation Of IPOB’s Abduction, Murder & Shallow Burial Of Five Hausa-Fulani Citizens In Abia State and signed by chairman of the group Comrade Emeka Umeagbalasi "Even though the DSS account is characterized with inherent minuses and flaws, but we are tempted to not to discard it because in crime statistics and its management; DSS account is treated as official crime statistics, despite its inherent flaws. The DSS account under reference is also terminally sick in reliability, validity, credibility and reality. It is also inter-service encroachment oriented"

Umeagbalasi argued that by statutory establishment, the DSS functions are strictly restricted to interior intelligence, protection of VIPs and oversight or auxiliary functions in the areas of crimes against the State and public stability; and certainly not street crimes or crime against persons, such as murder, abduction noting that In the instant case, the best the DSS would have done was to share basic intelligence or outcome of its preliminary investigation with the Homicide Department of the Nigeria Police Force; assuming the Service was the first security intelligence outfit to be alerted by complaining parties (if any).

"In standard criminal investigation management, two dominant ways of criminal reporting or complaints are by operational beat or citizen report. That is to say that the DSS magisterially usurped and encroached into an area outside its statutory and operational mandate; leading to quackery issuance of the public statement, quackery presentation of same with quackery and hasty conclusion (i.e. linking the alleged crime to IPOB). Strictly speaking, “crimes of abduction, murder and unlawful interment” reside with the Homicide Department of the Nigeria Police Force under the Force/State Criminal Investigation Department (FCID or SCID) and the office of the Director of Coroner’s Inquest of a State and not the DSS.There is nowhere in the DSS structure and establishment (i.e. National Security Intelligence Agencies Act of 1986) where “the Homicide Department” is located, except the Nigeria Police Force" Umeagbalasi said

He maintained that "Until concrete and satisfactory answers are provided and until the Homicide Department of the Nigeria Police Force and the office of the Abia State Director of Coroner’s Inquest step in to unravel these, alongside those murdered corpses earlier found in Aba burrow pits, the DSS public statement under reference will remain thousands of miles away from science of reality, reliability, validity and credibility. This is more so when the Service has earned national and international notoriety in spearheading the use of judicial and structural violence against the Indigenous People of Biafra or IPOB, its leadership and teeming supporters across the country particularly in the Southeast and the South-south Zones of Nigeria. It may most likely be another way of “giving a dog a bad name so as to hang it”

Group faults DSS on abduction/killing of Fulani Herdsmen by IPOB Group faults DSS on abduction/killing of Fulani Herdsmen by IPOB Reviewed by Unknown on Thursday, April 14, 2016 Rating: 5

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