‘DSS Officer’ Who Testified For Gov. Mbah At Enugu Election Tribunal No Longer In Service –Sources  

Yahaya had talked about the failure of NYSC to preserve an moral file-keeping arrangement became the explanation within the again of its inability to ticket Mbah’s preliminary certificate.

Isa Yahaya Mohammed, a one who claimed to be an legit of the Department of Mutter Companies (DSS) while testifying at the Enugu Mutter Governorship Election Tribunal on Tuesday, is no longer a serving officer of the secret police, SaharaReporters investigation has published.

Yahaya, who claimed while giving testimony at the tribunal, that he became a serving deputy director accountable of operations at the DSS, later contradicted himself in his written deposition the build he wrote that he became Deputy Director (Approach).

Yahaya talked about the failure of NYSC to preserve an moral file-keeping arrangement became the explanation within the again of its inability to ticket Mbah’s preliminary certificate.

Giving proof, Yahaya, who also identified himself as DSS Deputy Director, Operations and Strategic Department, talked about the protection company commenced an investigation into the discharge certificate controversy following a petition to it by Mbah dated February 8, 2023.

In accordance to him, there became an exchange of correspondence between Mbah and NYSC at every stage of their interaction.

Nonetheless contrary to his assertion, a supply within the secret police suggested SaharaReporters that Yahaya retired as an Assistant Director of the DSS some years within the past, suggesting that the secret service never at any time gave him the mandate to be in Enugu to give proof on behalf of any of the contenders at the tribunal.

“Yahaya who testified at Enugu governorship tribunal is now no longer with the DSS; he left the DSS some years within the past. Nonetheless some participants have an interest to assist Governor Mbah with his case and this involves some participants at the tip.

“So Yahaya who does dirty jobs for the DSS became recruited to testify in favour of Mbah,” the provision talked about.

The DSS supply published that contrary to the posturing of Yahaya at the tribunal, the DSS no longer most steadily responds to subpoenas, as its mandate does no longer consist of such investigations that can require it to be summoned to delivery court docket sessions.

The availability talked about thanks to the personality of the mandate of the secret police, that there became no technique the DSS may well be desirous about such a neighborhood because, aside from in any other case talked about, the duties of the service are secret and their findings are mostly labeled.

“It’s a ways no longer conceivable for the DSS to be subpoenaed on such matters. Even after we are referred to as to analysis factors corresponding to certificate forgery by public officers, it is done discreetly and the findings are labeled and shared perfect with relevant authorities.

“It’s a ways unprecedented to procure the service rendering before the courts or any member of the final public, facts and offers from our investigations. It’s a ways no longer segment of what we enact right here,” the provision talked about.

The availability continued, “This will be unprecedented for the DSS to position itself in a allege the build it is viewed to be contradicting a federal executive company.

“You deserve to clutch that the service desires to rob price to the allege of the NYSC (National Formative years Service Corps) on the subject. NYSC has made it certain that the man you are speaking about (Peter Mbah) did no longer have his discharge certificate from them.

“How can the DSS, a federal executive company, be contradicting one more crucial federal executive company? It cannot happen. Our job right here is to provide protection to the integrity of the Nigerian Government and its institutions and no longer to scoot them down.”

One other DSS supply talked about there may well be no allege treasure Deputy Director, Operations or Deputy Director, Approach at the DSS headquarters.

He added that Yahaya may well never hang come from the DSS allege of enterprise.

“We enact no longer hang such positions as you talked about in our allege of enterprise. I label no longer know the build that person came from, nonetheless it is indubitably no longer from our allege of enterprise,” he talked about.

The availability talked about, “On this doc tendered by the so-referred to as scrutinize from the SSS or DSS, he described himself as the Deputy Director, Approach. I treasure to protest you that the allege of deputy director does no longer exist within the service. What you hear is Assistant Director after which Director.”

When contacted for clarification in relation to Yahaya’s case, the spokesman for the DSS, Dr Peter Afunanya, merely talked about, “We’re investigating.”

In the period in-between, a fair accurate practitioner, Joseph Maduabuchi Iloh also talked about the DSS is no longer, by its mandate, imagined to please in itself in investigations corresponding to forgeries.

Iloh, who spoke about the controversy surrounding the look of the purported DSS officer at the Enugu Tribunal, talked about it became the responsibility of the Nigerian police and no longer the DSS to conduct investigations touching on to forgeries and other crimes regarded as as no longer threatening to the inner security of the nation.

Citing old circumstances which had been handled by Nigerian courts, Iloh referred to a subject that had been handled by the Court of Charm, which became published within the Nigerian Law Impart.

He talked about, “In Tawakalitu v. FRN (2011) All FWLR (Pt. 561) 1413 at 1489 to 1490, par E-F, it is apparent that the powers conferred on the police are wider than those of the Mutter Security Service that are confined to detection of crimes in opposition to the inner security of Nigeria; preservation of all non-navy labeled matters touching on the inner duties affecting inner security of the Nigerian Mutter as the National Meeting or President may well negate an crucial to establish to the service.

“With the very best respect, examination malpractices and/or certificate forgery is no longer one of those crimes touching on to or contemplated by the National Security Act on the inner security of Nigeria to confer the Mutter Security Service with the powers to arrest, detain, investigate, and arraign the accused participants in that respect.”

SaharaReporters had reported that the Self reliant National Electoral Rate (INEC) declared Peter Mbah of the Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP) as the winner of the March 18 governorship election in Enugu Mutter amid protests and allegations of overvoting.

In accordance to the INEC declaration, Mbah polled an whole of 160,895 votes to defeat his closest rival, Chijioke Edeoga of the Labour Occasion, who secured 157,552 votes.

Nonetheless before the stop result became equipped, the media had been awash with allegations that Mbah forged his NYSC discharge certificate.

Though he denied it, the Director Fashioned of the NYSC, Brig. Gen. Yushau Dogara, moreover to to a letter repudiating the discharge certificate submitted by Mbah to INEC, also went on national television to disclaim the purported certificate.

The discharge certificate grew to change into noteworthy extra controversial when Edeoga and the Labour Occasion made it their main item of prayer of their petition at the tribunal, the build they overview to hang the governor disqualified for alleged forgery and perjury.