DSS raids Sen. La’ah’s Kaduna residence, arrests his nephews

Armed riot policemen and operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) on Thursday raided the Kaduna residence Senator Danjuma La’ah, the senator representing Southern Kaduna Senatorial Zone.

According to a statement released in Kaduna, on Thursday, by La’ah, the security operatives, numbering about 100, arrived his house in buses, a pick-up van and a truck at about 5:00am and forced their way into the house.

La’ah alleged that his two nephews and the security guard living in the house were manhandled as he revealed that the security agents ransacked the house, destroying chairs, doors and other valuables without tendering any search warrant from any court of law.

He said his nephews were also whisked away to an unknown place and he has not been able to establish any contact with them.

“In the course of their search, they took away a pump action gun with its official permit granted me since 2008. My two nephews, Friday Batan and Samson Tanko, who were in the house were manhandled by the armed security personnel and taken away to an unknown place,” La’ah said.

“Also my wrist watches, jewellery belonging to my wife were carted away. I am yet to ascertain the extent of missing valuables in the residence.

“I cannot also establish if something very incriminating have not been planted in my residence as part of the orchestrated plot to not only to rubbish my integrity but criminalise me with the aim of prosecuting me.”

“The DSS raided my residence because I called governor Nasir el-Rufai to order this year over his clearly biased stand against southern Kaduna natives in the ongoing genocide there.

“I therefore wish to put it on notice, that not only are law abiding, harmless natives of southern Kaduna being maimed, killed and their communities destroyed by Fulani herdsmen – some of who Governor Nasir el-Rufai has traced back to some African countries and paid them sums of money.

“He is making it a crime for anyone to mention the killings, including the call for lawful self-defence in the face of his failure to stop the killings.”