UPDATE: DSS INVASION OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GIRLS COLLEGE, CALABAR, A VIDEO AND MATTERS ARISING

1. Since the news broke out of the DSS invasion of FGGC, Calabar, I have been inundated with calls, texts and messages of support. I appreciate this great solidarity. Nigerians are indeed great people.

2. We have a video. The DSS has issued a statement denying what happened and giving several versions of their own account. The most popular being that hoodlums attacked the school and they were called to tackle the hoodlums and that the teachers mistook them for the hoodlums and attacked them. Wow. So did they arrest any hoodlum? We have evidence (see bullet shells and listen to video) that shots were fired in the school. Who shot those bullets? The hoodlums? And the teachers mistook and attacked a shooting operative for a hoodlum? Pathetic. So many questions but not time to ask them yet. The only question we should ask now is why did they forcefully collect all the phones of teachers that were recording and taking pictures of the event? Why did they destroy evidence of how they came to rescue the school from hoodlums?

3. Only one teacher was able to keep his video recording. Please watch the video and judge for yourself. I have screen grabbed some portions of the video to help you identify persons therein. Please listen attentively to what is being said in the video clip and decide whether it confirms our story or that of DSS.

A. Listen for gunshots

B. Listen attentively and you will hear argument about a student that was beaten by a teacher and nothing about hoodlums or teachers attacking anyone.

C. I have also provided pointers to identify DSS operatives. Watch their actions keenly in the video.

D. Towards the end, you will hear operatives confiscating the phones of those recording.

4. We have the name, address and phone number of the parents of the girl. The police had been petitioned, why have they not arrested the parents of the student to identify the DSS operative?

5. Those who have been calling and asking what they can do to help. Do what you think you can do to help. The politics have already started to sweep this under the carpet. They have already started intimidating the teachers to back out and protect their jobs. For once in our lifetime, let's hold those who are paid with tax payers money accountable to tax payers.

6. Many persons have been sharing, keep sharing. If you have a platform like a blog, radio, paper or TV, share it there.

7. One will expect the DSS to dissociate itself from such a despicable act by some of its agents and quickly bring them to book and issue Nigerians an apology. But no, they must always play "the unknown soldier" track.

8. Let's stand together and demand that our law enforcement agents act within the confines of the law or they will crush us individually as fools.

First Baba Isa, Esq.,
Legal Practitioner.
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