The Department of State Services (DSS) has described as untrue the widely reported killing of its operatives in the Senator Ifeanyi Ubah’s convoy which was attacked around Nkwo Enugwu Ukwu Market axis of Njikoka Local Government of Anambra on his way to Nnewi his country home on Sunday night.
In his reaction to the story, the Spokesman of DSS, Dr. Peter Afunanya said no official of DSS was killed in the convoy’s attack that claimed lives of Senator Ubah’s aides.
Senator Ifeanyi Ubah (YPP-Anambra South) has confirmed the deaths of some of his personal and security aides during Sunday attack on his convoy.
Gunmen opened fire on the convoy and left many members of the convoy dead, including other persons at the scene of the incident.
The Senator, who confirmed the incident to newsmen on Monday in Awka, said the assassins killed one Obum Ikechukwu and Goodness Mathias.
DSP Toochukwu Ikenga, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Anambra State Command, confirmed the incident but did not give the figure of the victims.
‘’The Commissioner of Police, Mr Echeng Echeng visited the scene and there were blood stains at the place indicative of the fact that the attack was bloody, but to give the number I cannot say anything on that.’’