NewStats: 3,259,170 , 8,169,274 topics. Date: Saturday, 24 May 2025 at 05:31 AM 5x4l3b

In fulfillment of a promise to give free medical services to a Sokoto businessman accidentally shot during an operation, the Department of State Services (DSS) has invited the victim to its hospital in Abuja.

In mid-March, the DSS Director-General, Mr. Tosin Ajayi, approved the payment of ₦10 million damages awarded by a court to the businessman six years earlier. To compensate for time lost, the DG handed the businessman an additional ₦10 million, bringing the total sum to ₦20 million.

At the time, Mr. Ajayi directed the DSS hospital to officially integrate the businessman into the Services’ medical care system, which would enable him to enjoy free medical services anytime he desired.

A security source said the businessman arrived in the hospital “a few days ago, and has been undergoing free medical tests and treatment from the hospital’s best doctors.”

He said, “True to the DG’s directive, the man has been in the VIP ward which, of course, is fully air-conditioned. They have been running series of checks and giving him round-the-clock medical attention, in order to make him regain full control of his limbs. I even understand the DG asked that he be fed for free.”

In 2016, during a pre-dawn operation to arrest a suspected gunrunner in Jos, Plateau State, DSS operatives mistakenly shot and injured the businessman who incidentally bears the same name as the suspected gunrunner. The gunrunner was eventually arrested.

Two years after the shooting, in 2018, the businessman, through his lawyer, Idris Akibu, approached a Federal High Court in Bauchi.

Delivering judgement on the matter with suit number FHC/J/CS/18/2018, the court, presided over by Justice Muhammed Shittu Abubakar, ordered the DSS to pay ₦10 million in damages to the injured businessman.

“This is the third DG since this unfortunate case of mistaken identity happened. We were very happy when our new DG directed that we pay the money,” the source declared.

“He even added another ₦10 million to the victim’s money. It goes to show that, not only can security agencies be law-abiding, but we can also be full of the milk of human kindness."

https://guardian.ng/features/health/dss-gifts-businessman-free-healthcare-n20m-after-accidental-shooting/

Should we consider this a win?

There is something these ppl are not telling us.this is huge. But this 5 abi 6 years long oo

Ok

This is commendable. Kudos to the DSS

Accidental Shooting to being a Millionaire...What God cannot do does not exist

K

What is VIP about Hospital

The fear of the North.
Has it been a southerner, nothing would have come out of this.

OD...welldone.

The ways these guys are discharging their arms Calls for concern.

Is this arm meant to protect or be hostile?

better

God don pick the man's call.

Omo, another get quick rich update. Let me go and tell my friend, Pascal.

Before I open this particular thread, I just told myself that it must be an Islamic Northerner, I am not surprised, voila! I was right! Something's going on systematically and discreetly that we (especially Southerners) don't know yet. For now, we are busy still busy with one useless challenge or the other online...

They shot him for free, so they should treat him for free, nothing special about their act.

Gifts? How is this a gift?

This is compulsory damages that should be paid.

This is pathetic! You went after a criminal; instead of going after the real suspect, you arrested someone with the same name as him. During the operation, while trying to interrogate him to force a confession, you shot him in the leg. Chai! Nigeria is a very dangerous country to live in. This can happen to you, your relative, or anyone close to you. See the legal battle to get justice. I cry

900warriorz:
Accidental Shooting to being a Millionaire...What God cannot do does not exist

You are next

kalemy:
The fear of the North.
Has it been a southerner, nothing would have come out of this.

I think he is a Southerner if it was same news I read months ago

What's the current condition of the victim?
Is he incapacitated? If yes, N20m is not even enough. So they should not brag about it

Mishaya:


https://guardian.ng/features/health/dss-gifts-businessman-free-healthcare-n20m-after-accidental-shooting/

Hope dem o traceam go house go kidnap am

🤣😂😅

educatedfool:
Should we consider this a win?

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No. If it was a Southerner, he will still be in detention

That’s good

MisFortune case.

I greet chess players here.

So who is this man?

I hope it won't be a crime if Journalists interview the man to be sure what they say is true.

phoneport:
What is VIP about Hospital

They mentioned Air conditioner.
It is regarded as luxury in these parts..

Mishaya:


https://guardian.ng/features/health/dss-gifts-businessman-free-healthcare-n20m-after-accidental-shooting/

Great!

Wow

BigBelleControl:
Omo, another get quick rich update. Let me go and tell my friend, Pascal.

Tell Pascal to get shot by DSS and collect #20 million after 6 years? What if the shot kills him?

Hmmm