By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CeleOkaf11
The Department of State Services (DSS), on Friday, denied a report in a national newspaper (not Nigerian Newsleader Newspapers) that operatives of the Security Service attempted to arrest Mr. Sunday Adeyemo (aka Sunday Igboho) a self-acclaimed Yoruba activist and perceived ethnic bigot, at Ibadan, Oyo State, on Friday.
According to the news report, the alleged encounter between Adeyemo (Sunday Igboho) and some DSS officers said to be armed, allegedly attacked Sunday Igboho at Sat Guru Maharaj’s area along Lagos- Ibadan Expressway on Friday, while he was allegedly going for a meeting in Baden, the Oyo state capital.
Igboho, according to the newspaper report, told newsmen, shortly afterward, that he was disappointed that he committed no offense to warrant any attempt to interfere with his freedom of movement by any authority in the land whatsoever. However, in a swift reaction to the said report same Friday, Spokesman of the DSS, Dr. Peter Afunanya, refuted, in a short statement, the claim by Sunday Igboho as contained in the said news report, saying that the "news is misinforming and should be taken as fake and therefore should be disregarded".
The DSS image manager, Dr. Afunanya, however, pleads the understanding of the Nigerian media is reporting accurately, news matters considering the uneasy times, security wise, currently in the country. NNL.
