Following public criticism, Nigeria’s State Security Service, also known as DSS removed an offensive tweet stereotyping Igbos.
The SSS was harshly chastised on Tuesday for using its official Twitter page to mock Maxwell Okpara, an Igbo lawyer, for supporting suspended CBN governor Godwin Emefiele and tying him to the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra without providing evidence.
“Charge and bail, overzealous uninformed IPOB/ESN lawyer Maxwell Okpara mobilises other like-minded lawyers against DGSS. Futile Efforts. Well, Nigerians, beware! This is in bad faith. Transferred aggression,” the secret police had tweeted.
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It added, “A Biafran Republic agitator and Outlawed IPOB counsel defending the suspended CBN Governor. Is IPOB defending one of theirs???? What a contradiction… hmmm…what’s the connection? Is someone telling us something? May Maxwell be properly educated on points of law, please.”
Peoples Gazette confirmed Wednesday morning that the secret police’s tweet had been deleted.
Mr Okpara has recently spoken out against Mr Kanu’s condition and treatment in SSS captivity since June 2021, when he was illegally seized from Kenya in a manner that various legal experts have condemned as criminal. The SSS has repeatedly denied Mr Kanu access to his lawyers, family members, and medics.
The Odinala Cultural Heritage Foundation (OCHIE Igbo), a socio-cultural organization of young Igbo professionals, demanded that the SSS be more professional in its activities on Saturday.
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“A state-funded security organisation, whose primary duty is to gather sensitive security information and process it into actionable intelligence and deploy the same towards the protection of lives and properties of Nigerians, instead, abdicated its statutory responsibility to do the opposite,” stated the group.
It added, “We at OCHIE Igbo are occupied with the task to engineer the rebirth of a progressive 21st-century community across the South-East zone through partnership with various government institutions and private establishments interested in the development of the entire region.”
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