DSS storms SERAP office in Abuja, hours after asking Tinubu to probe NNPCL

Operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, have stormed the office of the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP in Abuja.

This was disclosed in a post via SERAP’s official X handle on Monday.

According to reports, the officers were demanding to see the rights group’s directors.

The post read: “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.”

This is coming hours after SERAP urged President Bola Tinubu to use his “leadership position and good offices to direct the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to immediately reverse the, apparently, illegal and unconstitutional increase in the pump price of premium motor spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, across its retail outlets”.

The right group had said Tinubu should direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, and appropriate anti-corruption bodies to probe the allegations of corruption and mismanagement in NNPCL.

SERAP said the spending of the reported $300 million “bailout funds” collected from the federal government in August 2024, and $6 billion debt NNPCL owed suppliers, despite allegedly failing to remit oil revenues to the treasury, should also be probed.