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SOKAPU Youth accuse DSS of selective Witch-Hunting

..Say’s body must go after APC AG National publicity secretary over comments

By Gabriel Udeh, Kaduna

Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) Youth Wing has exploded over comment made by the All Progressive  Congress (APC) Acting Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, saying the  Department of State Services (DSS) must go after him, the way it went after Dr Obadiah Mailafia during his Radio interview.

The Union’s National Youth Leader, John Isaac (Sir Jay), in a statement issued in kaduna quoted the APC acting publicity secretary of saying that a North-west governor is behind the heightened cases of banditry, abductions and other violent crimes in that zone.

The SOKAPU Youth Wing, in a statement signed made available to journalists yesterday stated that it “has observed with sadness the deliberate silence of the DSS over Yekini’s statement as against what the secret police did when the former Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr Obadiah Mailafia, made similar disclosure in August this year.

“The attention of the SOKAPU Youth Wing has been drawn to a statement credited to the All Progressive Congress (APC) Acting Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, that a North-west governor is behind the heightened cases of banditry, abductions and other violent crimes in that zone”, it stated.

The Youths lamented that “Dr Mailafia had disclosed during a radio interview some months ago that a current Northern governor is one of the commanders of Boko Haram and behind the increasing acts of insurgency and banditry ravaging the North”, and was invited many times and accused of threatening national security.

Accordingly, the union statement stressed that “It is, however disturbing to note that Yekini’s statement does not seem to threatened national security as the DSS suggested of Dr Mailafia’s disclosure.
“It surfaces to say that we live in a state where there are different strokes for different folks.” While we the youths and people of Southern Kaduna believe the DSS has a responsibility of protecting national security, we also believe this responsibility must be pursued responsibly”, the statement added.

“We, therefore, demand that the DSS henceforth desist from this continued distraction, harassment and selective witch-hunting of a law-abiding and a quintessential patriot  in the person of Dr Mailafia who s known for his selfless love and patriotism.
“The DSS should, instead, concentrate on intelligence gathering in curbing and addressing the security challenges facing the North”, it stated.

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