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The All Progressives Congress has described as the height of lawlessness and an orchestrated provocation the second raid that was carried out on the partys data centre in Ikeja, Lagos, by the Department of State Security on Monday night.

It said the agency, which it described as out of control should be put in check.

The party said, The raid by over 40 armed DSS officers, despite a court order restraining the service from such action, shows that the DSS considers itself to be above the laws of the land, and this is totally condemnable, the party said in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

Even under a PDP government that has nothing but contempt for constitutional order, the lack of respect for a court order by an institution of state, like the DSS, has plumbed the depth of anomie, and shows that our democracy is in clear and present danger from anarchists.

APC alleged that the armed DSS officers, who came with trucks, shoved the security personnel at the building aside and broke into the storage facility from where they carted away over 30 bags filled with the APC membership registration forms.

The party said the raid came on the same day it challenged the DSS to make public its findings after the first raid that was widely condemned within and outside Nigeria, and described as the worst political scandal in the nations history.

APC added, It is sensible to conclude that the DSS second raid was its own crude reaction to the challenge we posed to it. Apparently yet to find any evidence of PVC cloning as alleged by the DSS, it is now quite desperate to manufacture evidence to justify its raids. Or how else does one explain the claim by the service that its findings will shock Nigerians, even at a time it is still in search of evidence? Is this how self-respecting intelligence agencies conduct their operations?

It is curious that an institution of state will continue to act like an enforcement arm of the ruling party by constantly harassing the opposition. It is strange that an organisation that should be deploying its best staff to gather useful intelligence that can help the nation to win the anti-terrorism war is instead engaging in terrorising the opposition.

It is time to caution the DSS and to remind those at the helms of affairs that while they may be having a free rein today, they will one day rue their actions at this critical time in our nations history, it said.

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APC alleges second raid of partys data centre