DSS explains why it raided APC data office in Lagos

The Department of State Services (DSS) has disclosed why its operatives invaded the data office of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos on Saturday.

Spokesperson of the DSS, Ms. Marilyn Ogar on Sunday, said the agency acted on a petition it received about some activities of the company.

The petition, she disclosed, alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission’s permanent voter’s cards (PVCs) were being duplicated by APC agents.

According to Ogar, the petition alleged that the “cloning” of the cards was with the intention of hacking into INEC’s data base, corrupting it and replacing them with the “cloned” data.

The statement said: “A petition was received by this Service about some activities at No. 10, Bola Ajibola Street, Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos.

“Based on this information, the Service placed the building under surveillance; and having been convinced that some unwholesome activities were going on in the building, it undertook a raid of the premises.

“In the process, some persons were arrested while a server, three hard drives, and 31 ‘Ghana must-go-bags’ of hard copy documents were recovered and taken away for further investigation.

“It must be noted that the said location had no sign post indicating whether it was a private or government office”.

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