The Department of State Services (DSS) has vowed not to allow its responsibilities and mandate as scheduled by the law to be obstructed or frustrated by some politicians and disgruntled elements within and outside the government who are currently enmeshed in a smear campaign against the Service’s Director General, Yusuf Magaji Bichi and his key officials over their uncompromising stance on some critical governance and policy issues.

The DSS emphasized that those behind the plot have engaged Civil Society and Non-Governmental Organizations to not only sustain but stage further rallies, roadshows and press conferences and use the occasions to discredit Bichi. 

According to a statement signed by the Service’s Public Relations Officer, Dr. Peter Afunanya. ”Also, sections of the media have been briefed to implement the strategy through sponsored articles, commentaries and features to malign the DG, his family and select officials of the Service.

The Service is monitoring developments and will allow the plotters to either exhaust themselves or rescind the plan of action. Otherwise, no amount of intimidation, harassment and blackmail will deter it from discharging its duties. However, it would not idly watch a group of dissatisfied gang to undermine the Service and its highly dedicated Leadership and Management.”

The statement however advised the public to be wary of these tendencies and ignore the antics of dark forces out to impugn the character of the DSS’s helmsman and his management team, while reiterating its unalloyed support to the President on his resolve to continue to confront head-on, threats to national security as well as create the enabling environment necessary for the 2023 general elections to hold.