Some operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS), Nigeria’s secret service agency, have arrived at the Abuja office of the Socio-Economic Rights Accountability Project (SERAP) looking to arrest its directors.
This comes a day after SERAP urged President Bola Tinubu to “direct the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to immediately reverse the apparently illegal and unconstitutional increase in the pump price” of petrol on Sunday.
SERAP is a renowned civil society organisation dedicated to public accountability and democratic freedoms.
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BREAKING: Officers from Nigeria’s State Security Service (SSS) are presently unlawfully occupying SERAP’s office in Abuja, asking to see our directors. President Tinubu must immediately direct the SSS to end the harassment, intimidation and attack on the rights of Nigerians.— SERAP (@SERAPNigeria) September 9, 2024
“BREAKING: Officers from Nigeria’s State Security Service (SSS) are presently unlawfully occupying SERAP’s office in Abuja, asking to see our directors,” SERAP said in a post.
“President Tinubu must immediately direct the SSS to end the harassment, intimidation and attack on the rights of Nigerians.”
This situation adds to the increasing threat against civic rights under the government of President Bola Tinubu.
Amnesty International Nigeria has responded by cautioning that Tinubu “is going too far” in suppressing dissenting voices since his assumption of power.
Amnesty International received disturbing report of the unlawful invasion of the Abuja office of Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) by operatives of DSS. President Bola Tinubu is going too far in his government’s repressive efforts to gag dissenting voices.— Amnesty International Nigeria (@AmnestyNigeria) September 9, 2024
“Amnesty International received disturbing report of the unlawful invasion of the Abuja office of Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) by operatives of DSS,” Amnesty International Nigeria wrote on X, adding that “President Bola Tinubu is going too far in his government’s repressive efforts to gag dissenting voices.”
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