Families of Missing DSS Agents Petition Buhari, Demand Probe

Family members of the missing DSS operatives have forwarded a joint petition to the presidency to demand answers concerning the dramatic disappearance of their family members without any glimpse of home from the government.

Four months after seven Department of State Security (DSS) agents went killed at the Ikorodu area of Lagos, their family members have decried the agency’s silence on the issue.

The families have therefore appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to open a thorough investigation into the operatives’ murder. The families before now took their complaints to the media where they discussed the hardships of living without their loved ones.

They also want the President to compel the DSS to pay the salaries and other entitlements of the missing operatives to their wives, children and take full financial responsibility of their respective families.

“Let Nigerians ask why the DSS should keep silent on the sudden disappearance of their gallant officers who were on national assignment and refuse to even ask their families how they have been faring!

“Reason and responsibility demand that the DSS should cater for the temporary financial needs of the families until they are back,” they said in a letter to President Buhari.

Also petitioned in the letter titled: “A plea for thorough investigation into the case of seven missing DSS operatives with Lagos Command,” were the Senate, the Inspector General of the Police (IGP) ,Solomon Arase and the Attorney -General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami.

There are fears that the missing DSS operatives could be dead as a nabbed notorious armed robber named Kelly Fotor confessed to the killing of the security operatives by members of his gang. Kelly Fotor is currently in police custody and there is the possibility he is currently being prosecuted in court.