The Department of State Services (DSS) has said that it never denied the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor , Godwin Emefiele, access to his family and lawyers.
Spokesman of the agency, Dr Peter Afunanya, in an article on Tuesday titled: “The DSS operates within its mandate” said the celebration of the news of a court order to allow Emefiele’s lawyers and family access to him was quite unnecessary.
“He was never denied access. Ever since he was taken into custody, his family has continually accessed him. Same with medical officials. The impression that the Service is going to act on the prompting of the Court is not correct,” Afunanya said.
Afunanya, who alleged a media ambush against the Service, called out some newspaper houses for their editorials pertaining to the Service recently, which he referred to as “hatchet job.”
“It did not seem that the editorials which sought the reforms of the DSS or to criticise it for its public statements or actions on various subject matters of national security concern were, by any means, an accident or a coincidence. It looked every inch planted or organised. It is a hatchet job or so it seemed. The judgement that the Service is excessively public or ubiquitous missed the point. The papers manifested predictable bias and patterns,” he said.
