The activist condemned the involvement of the DSS in the dispute, arguing that the agency should focus on tackling worsening insecurity across the country instead of targeting students and activists.
Human rights activist, Francis Nwapa, has accused the Department of State Services (DSS) in Enugu State of attempting to intimidate and silence members of the Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) over their intervention in the alleged illegal expulsion of a student nurse from Ezzy International College of Nursing Science, Enugu.
In a statement issued on Saturday, Nwapa disclosed that the DSS Enugu Command invited him to appear before it on Tuesday, August 19, following YRC’s involvement in the matter.
According to him, the group had already informed the DSS that if his presence was genuinely required, the agency should either transfer the invitation to its Lagos office, where he resides, or provide flight arrangements to Enugu.
Nwapa alleged that the Chief Executive Officer of the institution, Dr. Gloria Bertram Okoli, was using the DSS to suppress dissent and intimidate critics speaking against what he described as “administrative authoritarianism, victimisation and repression” within the school.
