The Strategic Communications Interagency Policy Committee (SCIPC) has detailed the progress made by Nigeria’s security, defense, and response agencies in addressing the country’s security challenges for the month of July.
The Department of State Service DSS Spokesman Peter Afunanya hosted this edition at the DSS Headquarters in Abuja Nigeria's Capital and update the public on the various submissions made by the agencies. He acknowledged the resilience and dedication of security personnel, commending their professionalism in the face of extreme provocation, noting that officers responded appropriately to provocation and various attempts to disarm the personnel.
Addressing concerns on some trends that could degenerate security situation in the country, especially the #IgboMustGo hashtag, the Spokesman for the Directorate of State Security Services DSS, Peter Afunanya said the president has stated that this can not be tolerated, directing all security agencies to handle such accordingly.
The security agencies in Nigeria also sounded a note of warning that those carrying flags of foreign countries during protest that it is a felony offence, and some persons have so far been arrested with the aim of getting the sponsors behind them.
The Force spokesman, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi while fielding questions from journalists said the Nigerian Police Force has so far arrested eight hundred and seventy three (873) suspects directly connected to one criminal offence or the other during the period of the protest stressing that those arrested so far are criminaly minded individuals, causing massive destruction, robberies, arson among other criminal behaviours exhibited.
On the use of teargass and bullets on protesters, he said this was necessitated by the situation the police encountered on ground adding that a court ruling asked the protesters to use the stadium rather than the express way around the stadium.
He emphasized that the police was carrying out its duty of protecting national infrastructures and asses not with the intention to harass or intimidate anyone.
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