*Secret Police Is Constitutionally A State Protection Agency, Not To Serve The President’s Interest Only, It Notes
Press Statement
(25/06/2026)
RESPECT RIGHTS OF OTHERS
We are appalled by the conduct of the DSS at the Federal High Court, Abuja while taking into custody Mr Omoyele Sowore.
The rowdy scene, bullish behaviour, the mass intimidation by the personnel and the humiliation of Sowore were totally unnecessary and embarrassing to an organisation that carries with it a certain level of sophistication or elegance.
We are opposed to this kind of drama by our Secret Service as there was no need for it. Who were they re-enacting this for, anyway?
Beyond this, we are worried by the interest of the DSS in this matter and the way it has prosecuted it as the accuser and the jailer.
We have the Ministry of Justice or precisely, the Attorney General of the Federation to care for matters of this nature.
It is saddening to note that the DSS has taken upon itself a role that portrays it as an ingratiatiating àgency, a departure from the one vested on it by the constitution that empowers it to monitor all (including Mr President) and act in a manner (through pre-emption or otherwise) to preserve the state or its interest.
When the DSS go into an overdrive to protect an individual or government at the expense of the state or a party presumed to be innocent until found guilty by a competent court of jurisdiction, that will be at variance with their oath of office.
The Nigerian State is superior to all individuals or governments and the DSS ought to know the difference. There could be no better illustration of this credo than when through the diligence of two journalists and American secret service, a sitting President, Richard Nixon was compelled to resign from office over the Watergate scandal in 1976.
We need strong institutions and not strong individuals for our democracy to survive. Strong individuals constitute a threat to democracy anywhere. When we as institutions outbid one another to please Mr President, we are unwittingly jeopardising our democracy.
Please be guided.
Comrade Joe Ajaero
President
