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DSS Officer Allegedly Stabs Caretaker In Osun Over Electricity Bill Dispute
I met some DSS operatives who said they cannot hand him over to the police because he is their operative.
An officer from the Directorate of State Security Service (DSS), known as Tifase, allegedly stabbed his caretaker, Omosola Oladele over a dispute regarding the payment of an electricity bill in Osun State.
In the late hours of Tuesday, August 22, 2023, an unsettling incident unfolded in the Tinumola area of Osogbo, It was during this time that concerned neighbours took it upon themselves to inform the caretaker about a purportedly nonchalant approach to household bill payments exhibited by a DSS officer.
It was gathered that the DSS officer stabbed the caretaker with a dagger after he asked him about the payment of an electricity bill.
Recalling the events from his hospital bed, the 60-year-old caretaker, Oladele, recounted how the incident unfolded.
“One of the tenants of the storey building reported to me that NEPA people came to cut light because they’ve paid the current electricity. She said that only two people, Tifase and one other person, have not paid,” he said.
“NEPA would have disconnected the light if people didn’t intervene but he angrily told me ‘they should cut it’. One of the eyewitnesses told him he should apologise for the utterance but instead, he went inside and came out with a dagger and stabbed me,”
An eyewitness by the name of Comrade Morounkola Tosin revealed that the genesis of the conflict dates back to August 16th, when the house residents were faced with the obligation of settling their electricity bills.
Some people have volunteered to pay the electricity bills but what they are asking for was a refund before he came out with a dagger to stab Mr Oladele.
“We rushed Mr Oladele to hospital and I went to report the case to Dada Estate Police Station. Before I came back from the police station I met some DSS operatives who said they cannot hand him over to the police because he is their operative.”