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DSS Personnel Threatens To Kill Journalist In Kebbi
By Jameel Gulma, Kebbi
An Officer of the Department of State Security (DSS) attached to Kebbi State Command, identified as Dauda Auwalu Taura has slapped a correspondent of the Authority newspaper, Mallam Shuaibu Zubair, when the journalist asked him to pay up his electricity bill.
Taura, who got angry because his co- tenants demanded that he only paid N4,000 out of N5,000 he ought to be paid, suddenly got angry, slapped a correspondent of Authority newspaper, , Mallam Shuaibu Zubair who led other tenants to confront him six times and said he could kill him and nothing will happen.
While briefing newsmen about his ordeal,Mallam Shuaibu Zubair explained that Taura who supposed to pay N5,000 electricity gave N4,000 to one of their neighbours which prompted others to find out who had not completed his money.
He said: ” Taura is using two apartments and each apartment is to pay N2,500 monthly. We are gathering the monthly bill and all of us have contributed our money completely. All the money to be paid is N10,000. When we are calculating the money,it was discovered that he was the one not completed his money. When we approached him,he suddenly got angry, slapped me six times without retaliation in the presence of other tenants.
“After that,he said that: “you have received beating for nothing,and you will die for nothing. It is today you will know that I am a DSS officer. If I kill you today, nothing will happen. The last thing you can do is to take me to the police station”, Zubair recounted.
The Journalist who still battling eyes problem, said his slaps has aggravated the problem and now afraid to be living in the house.
When contacted,a neighbour, simply identified as Maryam Aminu confirmed that the DSS officer slapped the journalist twice in their presence,trying to strangulate him before they ran out to call neighbours to come over to rescue the Journalist from the DSS man.
According to her,”he slapped him in our presence two times. Jerked his cloth,trying to strangulate him .We even told them they are all elderly men ,why must they be fighting over the electricity bill. So we rushed out to call other neighbours to come over to rescue him from the DSS man”.
Another neighbour, Mallam Haliru Usman when contacted,said he was in his room and he was called alongside other people to come over and intervene.
After the whole issue,I asked them to settle among themselves but the journalist insisted he has been cheated and he would take action about the incident. If I am call upon to testify anywhere as a Muslim,I will go and testify inline with the teaching of my religion because I witnessed what transpired between them.
