The Department of State Service has denied denying access to one Safiu Ibrahim and his brother-in-law.
Safiu and one other person were arrested at Trademore estate in Abuja on October 24.
Safiu’s wife, Aisha, in a recent viral video accused the DSS of denying the family access to her husband and brother since their arrest.
She also said despite being pregnant, the DSS personnel that broke into their house assaulted her and others on the said day.
Reacting to the allegations in a statement on Thursday, the Spokesperson of the service, Peter Afunanya, accused Aisha of lying.
He said there were procedures to access suspects in its custody.
Afunanya also accused Safiu’s wife of dragging the DSS into politics in Kogi state.
He said, ” She is either playing to the gallery or deliberately lying. It is not to my knowledge that she was denied access at the Agency’s gate. The DSS does not deny anyone access to its facility or suspects once the criteria for such access are met.
“There are processes/procedures in this regard. It is also very unfortunate that the lady is dragging the Service into the Kogi State local politics. She knows very well that the husband was not picked as a result of Kogi politics as she has desperately tried to link us with or make the public believe.
“Encourage her to desist from using fake news, hate speech, hostile activism, misleading narratives, and other instruments of disinformation against the Service or to curry unnecessary public sympathy.
“She knows her husband and the circumstances of his arrest which was procedurally done. And he was not the only person so arrested at the time he was.
“She should, please, stop the sensations and the mischief to drag us into Kogi politics.”
