The Department of State Services has left Nigerians shocked after it was discovered that the agency is hiding one of its operatives who shot dead an innocent student.
According to the report, Paul Hezekiah, 24 doing his industrial attachment at a phone shop along Ahmadu Bello Way, Jos, was said to have been brutally gunned down by the operative during a raid by the DSS at the popular GSM phone market over a missing handset. The innocent man died after the operative left him unattended. He lost too much blood and died.
Describing his shock how the DSS could maintain silence after a murder of such magnitude, the Police Commissioner in Plateau State, Mr. Adekunle Oladunjoye, said the operative who killed the innocent man is yet to be handed over to the police for prosecution.
The CP said, “The case was reported at the ‘A’ Division and we had expected DSS to hand the suspect over to the police since it became a public knowledge. But I have asked the CID to formally write to DSS to release the suspect to us for questioning.”
In fact, the DSS has frustrated all effort to reach them. It has remained quiet more than a day after the incident happened.
The agency has carried its activity like nothing happened even after hundreds of traders had protested at the State House of Assembly where they showed their disapproval over the incident and the inability of DSS to bring the culprit to book leaving many wondering if the DSS is above the law of the country.
The family and friends of the deceased have called for justice and said they will not rest until justice is done.