APC flays SSS on comments over invasion of partys data centre By Dotun Omolaja, Lagos The All Progressives Congress (APC) has reacted to the reasons given by the Directorate of State Security Service (DSS) for invading the Data Centre of the party in Lagos on Saturday, describing it as plainly implausible and a witless afterthought. APC in a statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed called the security service a shameless apologist of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Mohammed wrote that the party wondered why a self-respecting intelligence gathering agency will rely on beer parlous gossips in carrying out its onerous responsibility, especially in a politically-charged environment like what prevails in the country at present. “The spokesperson for the DSS said the organization had put the building housing the Data Centre under surveillance, and that it only acted after it was convinced that unwholesome activities were taking place. “What hogwash! If indeed they put the place under surveillance, would they not have been able to establish that it is an APC Data Centre? Even if they were not sure, what prevents them from obtaining a court order permitting them to enter and search the building instead of carrying out a Gestapo-like operation? Are security agencies above the law? To highlight their crudity and lack of professionalism, they had to go and arrest one of the staffers who was not on duty just to get the password to the servers they vandalized and took away. “This speaks volumes about the limitation of the DSS intelligence gathering ability. If they had broken into the Boko Haram computer, would they have gone to arrest Abubakar Shekau or any of his commanders to give them the password to it? Nigerians can now see why no progress has been made in using intelligence gathering to root out the evil Boko Haram, it said.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 03:49:08 +0000
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