Plateau Govt Refutes Claims of DSS Weapon Seizure and Sabotage

The Department of State Services (DSS) may have purposefully obstructed efforts to respond to recent gunman attacks on villages, according to reports that the Plateau State Government has rejected.

The accusations are “misleading, erroneous, and aimed at causing disaffection and acrimony” between the state and the DSS, according to a statement released by Secretary to the State Government Samuel Jatau on Tuesday.

According to a statement posted on the Plateau State Government’s Facebook page, the DSS confiscated guns intended for the Plateau Neighbourhood Watch organization, Operation Rainbow, in order to thwart its ability to respond to the violence.
“There is a false narrative on Facebook and other social media platforms that the Department of State Services confiscated weapons that were purchased for the Plateau State Neighborhood Watch organization, Operation Rainbow,” Jatau stated.

The study went on to suggest that the seizure was purposefully carried out in order to delay the agency’s reaction to the recent violent attacks on certain communities inside states. We want to make it very evident that this is not at all the case.

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No action has ever been taken to thwart government attempts to combat insecurity in Plateau State by the Department of State Services, even if it was done in error.

He underlined that efforts to save lives and restore calm to the Plateau had been the DSS’s greatest assistance.

The Department, on the other hand, has been a very trustworthy partner and has supported the state in reducing insecurity in a number of ways.

The public is consequently encouraged to disregard those stories since they are false, deceptive, and intended to sow discord and disenchantment between the state government and the Department of State Services.