The Legal Counsel to the Department of State Services (DSS), Adedipe and Adedipe Legal Practitioners, has issued a notice to two television stations namely Da’ar Communications PLC (owners of AIT), Channels Television, and other media platforms, demanding apology and retraction of reports by them purporting that their operatives invaded the Lagos Assembly on Monday.
In a letter dated February 17, 2025, entitled: “False, Defamatory and Malicious Publication Concerning the State Security Service (aka DSS) regarding their presence at the Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday February 17, 2025,” the Service has demanded a retraction of the story and an apology to boot.
According to the Counsel, even when it was clear that it was the Clerk to the Assembly who invited DSS and police personnel to help secure the Assembly, following fears that hoodlums could attack the lawmakers, the media houses nonetheless ran reports that their operatives invaded the Assembly in a Gestapo style.
The Service has given the media organizations seven (7) days to run apologies in their respective news channels five times a day for three days running, or face legal action.
Recall that these media outfits alleged that the Secret Service stormed Lagos State House of Assembly to disrupt the business of the House, contrary to facts that the DSS was invited to carry out its statutory duties.
