DSS, EFCC Clash: Buhari’s Govt ‘Grossly Irresponsible’ – PDP Senator

A Peoples Democratic Party Senator, Abiodun Olujimi, has described as “grossly irresponsible”, the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.

Senator Olujimi, at Wednesday’s Senate plenary, was reacting to the recent face-off between operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) and that of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja.

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Officials of both agencies had clashed at Mamman Nasir Street, Asokoro, when the DSS prevented the EFCC from arresting ex-DG DSS Ita Ekpeyong, and former DG of NIA, Ayo OKe.

In her contribution to the motion raised by Senator Dino Melaye, calling for investigation into the altercation, Olujimi said this is the first time “we will see gross irresponsibility in government”.

“The truth is that we cannot go to a house of a security agent, a man who have kept the secrets of Nigeria for so long and just try to arrest him like chicken.

“There has to be someone we can hold responsible when two brothers are fighting, the person that is supposed to be held responsible is not doing his work.

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“This is the first time we will see gross irresponsibility in government whereby there is on one to come in between two agencies. These two agencies report to one person – the presidency and now we find them fighting on the pages of newspapers, it’s a shame.

“We are calling on Mr President to sit up. We rejected Magu as the chairman of the EFCC and up till today nothing has been said.

“The senate is being defiled, nobody has said we need to solve the issues. There are 170 million Nigerians and all of a sudden we are seeing that one person is the only one? Nobody is in charge of this government,” she said.

Senator Melaye had earlier during the plenary submitted that, “the media and social media, print and electronic have been awash with a disaster that took place yesterday.

“The EFCC went to the residence of the DG of the SSS Ita Ekpeyong to effect an arrest and the SSS stopped the EFCC from arresting him, they created an environmental brouhaha, the whole environment of neighbours were stopped from lawfully gaining entrance to their homes and causing confusion.

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“The same yesterday the EFCC the former DG NIA mr Oke, officers of the NIA agency stopped that arrest. We will recall that the same director of SSS have written this senate before now on Mr Magu, the acting chairman of EFCC. Mr President we are not to say who is to blame but to say we have been embarrassed before the international community that two sister agencies will engage in fisticuffs and stoppage of arrest. This is recipe for national disaster,” the Kogi West Senator had said.

The Senator consequently reached conformity to set up an adhoc committee to investigate the issue.
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