The Department of State Services, DSS, on Friday, said it arrested three suspects who have perfected plans to blackmail the Director-General, DG, of the service, Alhaji Lawal Daura.
An official of the service, Abdullahi Garba, said the suspects, whose names were not disclosed, were arrested on February 17 in Kaduna and Abuja respectively.
While parading them before newsmen in Abuja on Friday, the official said the suspects claimed that the DG had collected the sum of N4 billion from the PDP governors of Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Abia and Taraba, to influence Supreme Court judgments in their favour.
Meanwhile, the trio, who hail from Kaduna, Borno and Katsina, however, denied the allegation, saying that they were arrested over false claims.
Garba said, “The overall objective was to scare the DG and put him under pressure just for the group to extort money from him to serve their pecuniary interest.
“The suspects were also to misinform President Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian public that the DG had acquired choice property in Maitama and Asokoro areas of Abuja.”
Garba further stressed that the DG could not have helped the same PDP governors who daily accused him of not supporting them, adding that the activities of the group had become widespread and they took advantage of the sustained war against corruption to further their illegal act.
“They also used scaremongering and name dropping to deceive their victims to part with money; a method used by the group is to tell lies against their victims and also plant rumours about them in certain government circles.
“The service would not be distracted in its commitment to the anti-corruption war and warned mischief makers and self-appointed security experts to desist from dabbling into sensitive security matters,” Garba stated, emphasizing that the service will not hesitate to decisively deal with such persons and groups within the ambit of the law.
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