BY LINUS CHIBUIKE
AGAIN, the Department of State Services has warned against plans by some persons and groups to exploit some fault lines to cause ethno-religious violence in some parts of Nigeria.
The Public Relations Officer, DSS, Peter Afunanya, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja, on Wednesday.
He referred to what he described as desperate efforts by certain elements to subvert public order, warning them to desist from their nefarious acts or face the full wrath of the law.
Afunanya said these persons had continued to resort to inciting, with unguarded and divisive statements, acts to pit citizens against one another in order to apparently inflame the embers of tribal and religious discords.
The security agency said, “For the umpteenth time, the Service strongly warns these elements to desist forthwith from their (planned) nefarious acts or face the full wraths of the law.
“The DSS will, in collaboration with other security and law enforcement agencies, take necessary steps to ensure the safety of lives and property of the citizenry.”
The DSS had, on January 11, issued an alert of plans by some elements working with external forces to incite religious violence across Nigeria.
It listed the targeted states to include Sokoto, Kano, Kaduna, Plateau, Rivers, Oyo, Lagos and states in the South East.
The plan was to cause inter-religious conflicts and use their foot soldiers to attack some worship centres, religious leaders, personalities as well as key and vulnerable points, the DSS statement had said.
