DSS: “BringBackOurGirls group is a franchise, security threat”

The spokesperson of the Department of State Security (DSS), Marilyn Ogar, has said that the BringBackOurGirls group, was becoming a security threat just as she described the group as a franchise.

Ogar made the declaration while addressing journalists at the National Information Centre in Abuja.

She alleged that the ‘Bring Back Our Girls group’ was in the process of staging a sponsored protest in the FCT with the help of foreign media and funds from some bigwigs in the society. She added that the group was bent on defying the checks of the country’s security apparatus.

Her words: “We know that they have a bank account; we also know that they want to go to Asokoro Extension and simulate a protest march, where they will have foreign media and say that they are marching into Sambisa and Chibok. We also know that they brought in some experts from outside, to come and teach them how to beat security operatives when they are demonstrating; we are waiting to see whether those things will work. We also know that they have divided themselves into groups, giving each other specific assignments; if you are a genuine movement, when the late Funmi Ransome-Kuti started the struggle on the empowerment of the Nigerian women, I am not sure she was paying courtesy calls on money bags to solicit support; if she had to do that, I am not sure Oba Ademola II would have been dethroned in 1949 when he was asking women to pay taxes”.

The convener of the movement, Dr Oby Ezekwesili  has refuted the accusations stating that a formal response would soon be issued.

On twitter, she wrote: “Today, I have given enough attention to their strategic game of distraction. I shall now hold my peace. I know that the Lord fights for us”