The Department of State Services (DSS) has said that the
service had foiled a plan by a group of fraudsters to steal N4.5
billion from the Treasury Single Account (TSA) by hacking the Government
Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS).
This is contained in a statement issued by an official of the service, Mr Tony Opuiyo, Yesterday in Abuja.
According
to Opuiyo, between December 2015 and February, 2016, the Service also
busted the network of syndicated kidnap gangs in different regions in
the country which includes Kebbi, Zamfara, Niger, Nasarawa, FCT, Oyo and
Osun states.
The
statement also said that the service had arrested a suspected recruiter
for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria on Jan. 17 in Kano. The
arrest was sequel to available intelligence which indicated the
suspect’s terrorist antecedents and covert drive to indoctrinate and
recruit susceptible youths in the country.
The
statement said that the successes were recorded as a result of
proactive and credible intelligence offered by members of the public,
sister security agencies and other stakeholders. “ This Service wishes
to state that it will continue to deploy every means necessary within
its statutory mandate, and ambit of the law to ensure the security and
safety of all law-abiding residents and citizens wherever they
reside,“he said.
It
urged all and sundry to be extra-vigilant, as well as report any
suspicious persons and groups or activities to relevant security
agencies for the sustenance of relative peace in the country.
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