Court Orders DSS To Unseall APC Data Center

Court Orders DSS To Unseall APC Data Center 

Justice Mohammed Yenusa of the Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday  restraining the Department of State Services ( DSS ) from further sealing off the data office of the All Progressives Congress ( APC )  or taking further steps in connection with the property.

Justice  Yunusa also order the DSS to produce the five employees of the party, who were arrested by the security agency during the raid in court on friday to explain to the court why they are still being held in custody.

The judge gave the interim orders while ruling on a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by the APC through it counsel, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday.

It will be recalled that a combined team of the State Security Service operatives and naval police officers raided the data centre of the APC in Ikeja, Lagos, in the early hours of Saturday.

The operatives ransacked the centre and carted away the servers, routers, hard drives from personal computers and the work stations.

The 24 staff on the night shift and another one from her residence were arrested.

But the Department of State Security (DSS) denied the allegation, stating instead that it raided the premises following a petition it received about some activities of the company.

A text message by the spokesperson of the DSS, Ms. Marilyn Ogar on Sunday, said the petition alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission’s permanent voter’s cards were being cloned at the outfit.

According to Ogar, the petition alleged that the “cloning” of the cards was with the intention of hacking into INEC’s data base, corrupting it and replacing them with the “cloned” data.