Leaked Conversations: DSS Now Intelligence Arm of APC, Timi Frank Insists
- Timi Frank has declared the DSS has now metamorphosed into an intelligence arm of the ruling party
- According to him, the DSS has the right to intercept unlawful communication but not to leak private conversations that are not favourable to the ruling party
- He added that the main responsibilities of the DSS as stated in its enabling Act include counter-intelligence, internal security, among others
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Former deputy national publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank, has said the Directorate of State Security Service (DSS) has metamorphosed into an intelligence arm of the ruling party and urgently needs a total overhaul.
Frank, however said the DSS needs to wake up and restore the lost confidence Nigerians have in its leadership.
In a statement made available to Legit.ng, the political activist accused the organisation 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.
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According to Frank, the main responsibilities of the DSS as stated in its enabling Act include counter-intelligence, internal security, counter-terrorism, and surveillance as well as investigating some other types of serious crimes against the state.
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He said:
"The Department of State Services or the State Security Service needs a complete and total overhaul. 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.
"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.
"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. In recent times, the DSS has focused more on regime protection and fostering the interest of politicians in the ruling party and their allies. The DSS and the All Progressives Congress (APC) have become one and the same and it is almost difficult to differentiate a statement written by the DSS and the APC.
"How do we explain away the fact that the DSS has continued to tap the telephone lines and release phone recordings of opposition politicians and influential Nigerians critical of the government?
"The latest misadventure was a leaked telephone conversation between Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and revered cleric, Bishop David Oyedepo, the founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, and presiding Bishop of the Faith Tabernacle in Ota, Ogun State.
"The last time I checked, the overthrow of the government in Nigeria is treason and attracts the maximum penalty. So why has the DSS decided to announce a plan to overthrow a government when the headline should be 'DSS arrests X for attempted coup?'
2023 presidential election: Timi Frank urges INEC Chairman, Yakubu to resign
Recall that Frank recently called on the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to as a matter of urgency resign of his appointment or President Muhammadu Buhari should do the needful by relieving him of his position for conducting the worst ever rigged election in the history of Nigeria.
He called on President Buhari to be courageous enough to sack Professor Yakubu for bringing shame and opprobrium to the country by declaring highly compromised and heavily doctored results as an outcome for the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections
Frank who made this call in a statement in Abuja said it is high time the INEC boss resigned because Nigerians have lost total confidence in him.
Source: Legit.ng
