Why DSS Couldn’t Have Killed Tordue Salem – Spokesman

The Department of State Services (DSS), Sunday cleared the air over speculations that the late Vanguard journalist, Tordue Salem died in its custody saying that the deceased had no relationship whatsoever with it.

DSS spokesman, Dr. Peter Afunanya, who spoke in Abuja during a one-day seminar on media and national security also berated Senator Emmanuel Orker-Jev who allegedly made the insinuation during Senate plenary last Tuesday.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Tordue Salem follows perceived gaps in the story as narrated by the police that he was killed by a hit and run commercial driver a month ago.

Reacting to the insinuations of the DSS role in the killing of Tordue Salem, Afunanya, said:

”I don’t think someone like the Senator should have made such an allegation against a responsible institution like the Department of State Service.

“He should have sought clarifications from the service’s office in the National Assembly,” he said.

The DSS spokesman added, ”The Department of State Service did not arrest, detain or have a hand in Tordue’s death.

“Moreso, Tordue was not covering or related in any way to any security institution or beat and had not done anything to attract any security attention.

”The DSS being a responsible organisation does not embark on indiscriminate and secret arrest and detention or killing of anybody and could therefore not have arrested or detained the dead journalist.

“Whenever we have justifiable reason to arrest or detain anyone, we always make it public and give reasons for such action in accordance with the rules of our engagement.”

Chairman of the FCT chapter of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Emmanuel Ogbeche, urged greater cooperation between the media and security agencies to ensure balanced, truthful and unbiased reporting and sharing of information that can engender national unity, peace and development.

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