Department of State Services, on Thursday, said it was not involved in the raid of the headquarters of the Nigeria Labour Congress located in the Central Business District area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Some masked security operatives suspected to be from the DSS had on Wednesday night stormed and raided the NLC headquarters over allegations that members of the organised labour sponsored the #EndBadGovernance protest.
As of the time of the raid, people in the building had left for their various homes.
A labour leader said he spoke to a private security guard attached to the building on phone and confirmed that the masked operatives with assorted rifles stormed the building at about 10pm.
He claimed that the guard told him that the operatives went directly to the 10th floor of the building where the office of the NLC President, Joe Ajaero is located.
He added that the guard confided in him that the masked operatives later came back to second floor where some offices belonging to NLC are located.
But in its reaction through its spokesman, Peter Afunanya, the DSS denied carrying out any operation on the building, stressing none of its operatives went near the premises.
“Good morning dear friends. Pls kindly note that the Service (DSS) did not carry out any operation at the NLC office in Abuja,” Afunanya said in a terse response.
Recall that on Thursday August 1, thousands of Nigerians hit the streets in some states and the Federal Capital Territory to protest against rising cost of living in the country.
But the protest took a different dimension when some persons started calling for regime change.
Russian flag was flown in different parts of the country, forcing President Bola Tinubu to summon heads of security agencies to Aso Rock, where he ordered them to crackdown on those threatening democracy in Nigeria.
