Alleged invasion: SERAP narrative inaccurate, deceptive, says DSS

The Division of State Providers (DSS) has described allegation by the Socio-Financial Rights and Accountability Venture (SERAP) that its officers had taken management of its Abuja and Lagos workplaces, as “inaccurate and deceptive”.

The DSS, in a publication on its web site on Tuesday, stated a workforce of two unarmed operatives of the service had been lawfully detailed on routine investigation to SERAP workplace in Abuja.

The publication stated SERAP, a human rights group had sadly skewed and misinterpreted the lawful task as illegal, harassment and intimidation of its officers.

The division stated such official enquiries and liaison had been conventional and didn’t in any approach quantity to illegality or raid.

It urged the general public to ignore the narrative by SERAP and pledged its dedication to utmost professionalism within the discharge of its core mandate.

The human rights group had raised the alarm over an “illegal occupation” of its workplaces by operatives of the DSS.

The group had known as on President Bola Tinubu to direct the DSS to finish the “harassment, intimidation and assault on the rights of Nigerians.

(NAN)