The Commissioner of Nigerian Police Force, Federal Capital Territory Command, Haruna Garba, has revealed that an operative of the Department of State Services who was involved in a shooting incident that left several persons injured and hospitalised has been arrested and detained.

Mr. Garba made this development known in a telephone interview on Saturday, September 9, 2023, noting with assurance that an investigation was still ongoing into the incident. He further emphasized as false the rumours and allegations spreading around that the DSS operative was walking free.

“The DSS operative is still in our custody; he has not been released, and an investigation is still ongoing,” the CP said.

The victims of the market shooting are currently receiving treatment at some hospitals in Abuja.

A violent protest which was subsequently quelled by the police had erupted on Thursday night following the shooting of a fashion designer by a DSS operative who also shot indiscriminately and also injured several others.

It was learned that a client brought the operative to the fashion designer’s shop for allegedly failing to deliver some clothes on an agreed date.

A trader in the market, who did not want her name in print for fear of victimisation, said some of the fashion designer’s colleagues, who learned about the matter intervened but that their interference did not go down well with the DSS operative.