Nigeria’s secret police, the State Security Service (SSS) has invaded the Abuja office of an anti-corruption civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP).
This comes barely 24-hours after SERAP issued a statement, giving President Bola Tinubu 48 hours to reverse what it called unlawful petrol price hike, and probe the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL.
The organization had asked the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice and appropriate anti-corruption agencies to “probe the allegations of corruption and mismanagement in NNPCL, including the spending of the reported $300 million ‘bailout funds’ collected from the Federal Government in August 2024, and the $6 billion debt it owes suppliers, despite allegedly failing to remit oil revenues to the treasury.”
On Monday afternoon, SERAP posted on its X handle that its office had been invaded.
The post read, “Officers from Nigeria’s State Security Service (SSS) are presently unlawfully occupying SERAP’s office in Abuja, asking to see our directors”.
The organization further said that President Tinubu must immediately direct the SSS to end the harassment, intimidation and attack on the rights of Nigeria.
(Editor: Okechukwu Eze)
