HURIWA has condemned the alleged conversion of a serving operative of the Department of State Service (DSS) serving with the minister of Interior Lieutenant General Danbazau into a domestic servant as depicted in a widely circulated video which shows the Secret Police operative cleaning up the dusty shoes of someone identified on the video trending on the social media as the Interior minister.
The rights group said if it is confirmed that the serving DSS operative indeed was used as a domestic servant as a shoes shiner then the minister must be suspended for some months without pay as an effective deterrent to stop government officials from grossly abusing their official privileges as Federal Cabinet members.
Said HURIWA: “We note with disappointment that whereas the current Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, and other relevant authorities are in the public media advertising that henceforth police operatives should stop carrying hand bags for political office holders this video of the alleged use of a member of the nation’s secret police as shoes shiner is a crime against the institution of the Department of State Service because it has devalued members of such an esteemed national institution as mere slaves of serving political office holders who are of the All Progressives Congress specie.
This incident must be investigated and appropriate sanctions as suggested above adopted if the minister is found wanting. This is absolutely unacceptable and very despicable.”