Three individuals arrested for allegedly assaulting officers of the Department of State Services (DSS) have been released.
They were released on Saturday night after the intervention of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana.
Falana confirmed to SaharaReporters on Sunday morning that the three individuals were granted bail and have since met their bail conditions.
“I intervened by contacting the Director General of the State Security Service. Upon our intervention, the DG ordered that they be granted bail. They met the bail conditions and were released last night,” Mr Falana told SaharaReporters.
On Saturday, it emerged that the DSS had arrested three persons linked to the assault on its officers during the fracas at the Lagos State House of Assembly over fears that Mudashiru Obasa, who was removed as Speaker, would be reinstated.
Following this, the lawmakers had mobilized supporters to the Assembly complex who, without knowing that the DSS were deployed at the request of the leadership of the Assembly, attacked some DSS officers who were there to secure the facility.
A DSS source said: “After extensive analysis of CCTV footage, we were able to clearly identify three of the suspects. The suspects, Ibrahim Olanrewaju Abdulkareem, a photographer and two others attached to the Assembly’s Seargent at Arms, Adetu Adekunle Samsudeen and Adetola Oluwatosin Fatimoh, a lady, were consequently tracked and arrested during the week in different parts of Lagos.”
The trio, the source noted, had confessed to the crime and were facing the fate of being charged to court when the intervention for their bail came.
The DSS personnel had deployed on February 18, 2025 at the Lagos State House of Assembly following a letter dated February 14, 2025, and signed by Acting Clerk A.T.B. Ottun.
The letter, referenced LSHA/FAD/0/7554/323, instructed the DSS to implement strict access control at the Assembly complex from February 15 until further notice.
In a leaked memo dated February 14, 2025, the Lagos Assembly informed the DSS Director and other security agency heads in the state of credible intelligence suggesting that Hon. Mudashiru Obasa planned to forcefully reinstate himself on February 18, 2025.
Citing this as a potential security threat to the Assembly and its members, the Assembly management requested the deployment of DSS officers to strengthen security at the complex.
