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Spokesperson of the DSS, Ms. Marilyn Ogar, who addressed journalists at the Service’s headquarters in Abuja on Friday, also said the former Borno State Governor, Ali Modu Sheriff has been invited for questioning.
An Australian hostage negotiator, Dr. Stephen Davis, had, in a cable media interview last week, fingered Ihejirika and Sheriff as some of the major sponsors of Boko Haram.
Dr. Davis was hired by President Goodluck Jonathan to help negotiate the release of the over 200 Chibok school girls abducted by Boko Haram since April 14. The girls are still in the sect’s captivity.
Ms. Ogar said: ” I want to say here that it is absolutely uncharitable for us as Nigerians to reward somebody who laid down his life in pursuing the same people.
“For us to accept that he is associated with the same sect whose activities he, together with this Service, succeeded in bringing the activities of the sect to a halt in Kano, Okene and other places; pursuing them down to the Sambisa Forest.
“And to accept that the same man was sponsoring Boko Haram is wicked and uncharitable. We should not allow people to use our liberal nature to perpetrate all sort of evils in our society”.
On ex Governor Sheriff, Ogar said: “He had been invited here twice in the past. The Service has invited him again. There is nothing that this service has done in investigation in the past that we have not informed the public”.
Ogar, however, did not state the time and date that the ex Governor is being expected.
The DSS similarly picked holes in Davis’ statements, as they relate to the relationship between an unnamed Central Bank of Nigeria official and three of the suspects in the April 14 Nyanya blast.
Davis had stated: “The CBN official who handles the funding is an uncle to three of those arrested in connection with the Nyanya bombings. The boys lived with him.
“They were arrested by the SSS after the bombings but they do not seem to have interrogated about their uncle in CBN. Or if they have given up information about their uncle then the SSS has not moved against them”.
But Ogar said none of the six suspects being held by the Service is related to another by blood.
“In other words, none is a cousin or nephew to any other, and only two of the suspects, namely Yau Saidu and Ana’s Isah have ever lived together at the makeshift clinic called Kishi Clinic; operated by Rufai Abubakar Tsiga, a co-mastermind of the bomb blast who is still at large”, she stated.
Although they had already been paraded in July, Ogar, again, paraded the six Nyanya bombing suspects who all denied relationship, blood or otherwise, with the unnamed CBN official.
According to her, the Australian negotiator did not source his information from the DSS.
“This statement is imperative to clarify some information in the media to the contrary”, she concluded.
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