SERAP described the SSS and NIA’s action as deplorable and a mockery of the ongoing anti-corruption war. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) group has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to call some of the security agencies in the country to order.The group was reacting to the recent clash between the Operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS), the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).On Tuesday, November 21, the EFCC operatives stormed the Abuja home of the former heads the DSS and the NIA, Ita Ekpeyong and Ayodele Oke respectively, to arrest them, but their security orderlies shielded them.The security men reportedly created a day-long stand-off that nearly turned fatal.Ekpeyong led the SSS from 2010 when President Goodluck Jonathan appointed him until 2015 when Buhari replaced him with Lawal Daura.Oke was fired on October 30 over the controversial N13 billion cash haul which the EFCC recovered from an apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos, in April.
