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Sowore: DSS' Bold Outlaw, Subnormal Intelligence, Defective Predisposition By Martin White

August 26, 2019

Obviously, this goes to prove that the DSS is merely a political
stooge that responds to opposition based on the mood of the president.

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By the unlawful Gestapo arrest, clandestine detention and politically
motivated persecution of Omoyele Sowore, the Department of State
Service, DSS, have shown that it is markedly subnormal in function,
flawed in intelligence and rascal in behaviour.

Nigeria is currently perplexed, bedevilled and overwhelmed by the
lethality of marauding Fulani Herdsmen, widespread kingpin kidnappers,
armed robbery and a regional terrorist organization - Boko Haram.

Unfortunately for us as a country, we have a domestic intelligence
agency (DSS) known for its deficiency in intelligence and
functionality.

The activities of criminal-classed elements like Fulani Herdsmen,
kingpin kidnappers, and Boko Haram are evasive to the intelligence
radar of the DSS.

But the moment patriotic citizens become critical of the government
for its stalled policies and poor performances, they automatically
come under the radar of the DSS.

Obviously, this goes to prove that the DSS is merely a political
stooge that responds to opposition based on the mood of the president.

Instead of a vibrantly energetic and engaging domestic intelligence
agency that functions as the source of reliable information for
mitigating our various internal security challenges, our moribund DSS
is all about the pettiness of arrests and illegal detentions.

The calculated use of violence against our country by Fulani Herdsmen,
Boko Haram and other criminal groups with felonious intent have never
for once been comprehended by the radar coverage of our so-called DSS
domestic intelligence.

Isn't that a big shame?

The DSS should be publicly condemned and criticized for its subnormal
intelligence and defective predisposition.

When Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN,
threatened to attack the five South-eastern state of the country over
the purported stubbornness of their governors, the DSS was so docile
and unpatriotic to await news of their violent disturbances.

The intelligence radar of the DSS didn't capture, interpret and
analyze such inciting remark as the incentive for action by Fulani
Herdsmen against our country.

They watched the broad savages and excessive killings of our people by
Fulani Herdsmen with the least concern.

The Department of State Service, DSS, primarily established for
domestic intelligence, presently do not have the structural competence
and expertise for information gathering.

That is the reason the agency relies on online gossips and maliciously
divulged information for the sensitive job of domestic intelligence.

If the DSS truly have the structural competence for domestic
intelligence, their analysis, investigation, forecasting, and
strategic planning would have thoroughly processed and deduced
Sowore's #RevolutionNow protest to be civil.

If the #RevolutionNow protest was actually a call for the overthrow of
this government as it is being alleged by the DSS against Omoyele
Sowore, the Nigerian society would have seen a bit of that in action
by now.

Today, interestingly, there is no one person linked to Sowore that has
disturbed the peace of this country!

But because the DSS is subnormal in intelligence and defective in
predisposition, they acted in error and still find it very hard to
swallow their shameless pride.

Globally, domestic intelligence agencies are mainly for internal
security, counterintelligence; whereas overseas espionages are mainly
for foreign spies.

Domestic intelligence service is also supposed to be responsible for
identifying foreign spies employed by foreign services against a
country.

In 2011, Russian domestic intelligence service, the FSB, exposed 199
foreign spies, including 41 professional spies and 158 agents employed
by foreign intelligence services against the Russian government.

In 2006, the FSB reportedly caught about 27 foreign intelligence
officers and 89 foreign agents.

How many has the DSS caught? None! Why? They are nonentity - jobless!

If the DSS understands the danger of the activities of foreign
espionages in our country, they'd resign from their pettiness and
become serious for once.

One of the activities of foreign espionages in a country is to gain
access to the country's internet space without anyone knowing their
identity.

They place propagandas and disinformation on the local internet space
of the country to whitewash the spy's country foreign policy and
create a good image for themselves; but then, they intentionally cause
anti-government feelings in the foreign country to cause dissension
and unrest.

Nigeria is presently under the attack of cyber espionages that are
negatively influencing the thoughts and feelings of Nigerians through
online contents that ridicule our government and undermine our ability
of self-governance.

But because the DSS do not have the structural competence to checkmate
the economic security threat of foreign espionages in our country's
internet space, they do not know the danger their activities portend
for our country and the negative feelings of dissension that they
arouse in our people.

I'm writing this to tell the DSS to release Omoyele Sowore with an
apology to him because Sowore is not a threat to this country.

Arresting Sowore and using a court's exparte order to detain him for
further investigation is a contrive that demonstrates DSS' desperation
and want of damaging information to prove their case against Sowore.

Why arrest someone you still need to investigate to find culpable for
an alleged crime before being bold to charge to court?

As a domestic intelligence agency, your intelligence data and analysis
should have found him culpable of the alleged crime of treasonable
felony before enforcing an arrest.

There are several threats against the territorial integrity of
Nigeria; Boko Haram and Fulani Herdsmen are some of them. Sowore is
not one of them.

The DSS should stop harassing those who are not against Nigeria.

#Free_Sowore_Now!

Martin White-Ufuah, a writer and columnist, writes from Abuja. He is
the publisher, Ecumenical Review