An Officer of the Department of State Security (DSS) attached to Kebbi State Command, identified as Dauda Auwalu Taura, has slapped a Correspondent of Authority newspaper, Shuaibu Zubairu Tatu, when the journalist asked him to pay up his electricity bill.
Auwalu Taura, who got angry because his co-tenants demanded that he only pay N4,000 out of N5,000 he ought to be paid, suddenly got angry, slapped the journalist who led other tenants to confront him six times and said he could kill him and nothing will happen.
While briefing newsmen about his ordeal, Shuaibu Zubairu Tatu, explained that, Taura who supposed to pay N5,000 electricity bill gave N4,000 to one of their neighbours which prompted others to find out who had not completed his money.
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He stated that, Taura is using two apartments and each apartment is to pay N2,500 monthly.
“We are gathering the monthly bill and all of us have contributed our money completely. All the money to be paid is N10,000. When we are calculating the money, it was discovered that he was the one that did not complete his money. When we approached him, he suddenly got angry, slapped me six times unreplied in the presence of other tenants.
“After that, he said that, “you have received beating for nothing and you will die for nothing. It is today you will know that I am a DSS officer and If I kill you today, nothing will happen. The last thing you can do is to take me to the police station”, Zubair recounted.
The Journalist who still battling eyes problem, said his slaps has aggravated the problem and now afraid to be living in the house.
When contacted, a neighbour, simply identified as Maryam Aminu confirmed that the DSS officer slapped the journalist twice in their presence trying to strangulate him before they ran out to call other neighbours to come over to rescue the Journalist from the DSS man.
Another neighbour, Mallam Haliru Usman, said he was in his room and he was called alongside other people to come over and intervene.