DSS nabs three for assaulting operatives at Lagos Assembly

By Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja

Nigeria’s secret police, the Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested three persons linked to the assault of its officers at the premises of Lagos House of Assembly last Monday.

Recall that DSS operatives were deployed to Lagos House of Assembly last Monday following fears that the impeached Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, was planning to forcefully return to office.

Some lawmakers had also mobilized their supporters to the Assembly complex.

Three persons, however, attacked some of the DSS officers who were invited by the Assembly leadership to secure the facility, it was learnt.

They were arrested after they were identified in a CCTV footage.

DSS source said “after extensive analysis of CCTV footage, we were able to clearly identify three of the suspects”.

“The suspects, Ibrahim Olanrewaju Abdulkareem, a photographer and two others attached to the Assembly’s Seargent at Arms, Adetu Adekunle Samsudeen and Adetola Oluwatosin Fatimoh, a lady, were consequently tracked and arrested during the week in different parts of Lagos,”

The trio have since confessed to the crime and will soon be charged to court, added the source.

The Lagos Assembly had in a memo dated 14th February, 2025 and addressed to the DSS Director in the State, and Heads of other Security Agencies in Lagos State, told the Security Agencies in Lagos that, there was credible information to the effect that, Obasa had planned to forcefully reinstate himself today, February 18, 2025.

Accordingly, the Assembly management, held the view that, the development posed “a potential security threat” to it and its members.