Ex-DSS boss Daura regains freedom, passport withheld

The former Director General of the Department of State Security (DSS) Lawal Daura who was picked up on Tuesday after ordering the deployment of SSS operatives to lay siege at the National assembly complex has been released.

But his international passport was however confiscated.

Daura who was released on Wednesday night had been kept under house arrest in a guest house owned by the state security service in Gwarimpa area of Abuja.

As the presidency condemned the invasion of the National Assembly Complex with masked DSS men, denying the federal lawmakers entrance to the complex, the acting president Prof Yemi Osinbajo ordered the immediate dismissal of Daura.

Earlier on he was said to have been remanded at the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad facility in Guzape neighborhood, Abuja, where he spent time answering questions for irregularities during his tenure as the head of the secret police.

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It was later gathered that he was moved to one of the SSS owned guest houses in Gwarimpa Abuja, where he was detained as the men of the DSS awaited further instructions.

Daura was released and given his two phones though his international passport was confiscated, as he is under heavy surveillance by the men of the SSS

Although details of Daura’s interrogations have not been made known, it was gathered that specific corruption allegations against him are being tidied up by security operatives.

 

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