The Department of State Services (DSS) has dismissed report trending online that the service has withdrawn its personnel attached to the Senate president, Bukola Saraki and the speaker of House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara.

The report had claimed that the DSS, on Sunday, June 3, recalled half of its operatives
assigned to the presiding officers, ahead of the talks between Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) team to be led by Dogara.

It further claimed that the withdrawal order came from the directives to them “to report to the DSS headquarters with immediate effect”.

However, Daily Sun reported that the spokesperson of the service, Nnanna Nnochiri, said that the service never issued such directive.

“I can tell you authoritatively that the service never gave such directive. For emphasis, we have not withdrawn neither are we planning to withdraw our personnel in the security details of the two presiding officers of the National Assembly.

There is no iota of truth in that report,” he said.
Meanwhile, TRACK NEWS previously reported that the Senate president had promised to honour an invitation by the police over allegation levelled against him by suspects of the Offa robbery attack in Kwara state.

Saraki while denying the allegation urged the public to disregard the claim as a baseless allegation and another ploy by the Police to implicate him by all means.

He said he was the first top official to pay a visit to the place and right there in the palace of the traditional ruler, he put a call through to the inspector general of police on the matter.

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DSS Denies Withdrawing Saraki, Dogara’s Security